Measure before we promise
No proposal leaves the office without a water and light audit behind it. Guesses are expensive in agriculture.
The company
We decided the desert was a growing medium, not an excuse.
Sahara AgriTech is agronomists and control engineers in one room, arguing about the same crop from two directions until the numbers agree.
We started in 2018 with one leaking polytunnel behind the university and a stubborn question: how much of what Riyadh eats could Riyadh grow? The first answer was "not much, and not cheaply." So we rebuilt the tunnel, then the model, then the tunnel again.
Seven years later the answer is different. Thirty-eight bays across the Kingdom run on our platform, and the crops they grow travel forty kilometres instead of four thousand. We are not chasing the biggest greenhouse — we are chasing the one that pays for itself and closes its own water loop.
Desert-proof smart farming
Building 12, Riyadh Techno Valley, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451
How we build
Close every loop
Water, nutrients, heat and data all come back around. Waste is just a loop we have not finished building.
Hand over the keys
We train your team to run the bay without us. A greenhouse that needs a consultant on call is a greenhouse that failed.
The plant is the client
Every dial serves one opinion — the crop’s. If a feature does not raise yield or cut inputs, it does not ship.
The people in the room
FM
Dr. Faisal Al-Mutairi
Founder · Agronomy
HO
Hana Al-Otaibi
Head of Controls
ON
Omar Nasser
Water Systems
LS
Layla Saleh
Data & Yield