Yes, crops can be grown if water is available for irrigation.
yes
Corn, Beans, and Squash
crops that grow well in the desert are mostly cacti,sugar beets, barley,prickly pears and alfalfa hay. Patato's do ok in the desert they like to heat up during the day and cool off during the night. but they can not grow in sand they have to have some soil. a non crop that grows will in the desert is sage brush.
Without water irrigation, the desert areas would be too arid, and food plants would be unable to grow as a farm crop.
salinazation
Most of the southwest US is desert with little surface water and rare periods of seasonal "monsoon" type rains. Farm crop plants (unlike desert plants) cannot handle this scarcity of water.
There are many natural resources in Yuma, AZ. Some of these include copper, crop, livestock, and watershed. There are also resources pertaining to the desert.
Millet is grown in the Sahel because it is a drought-tolerant crop. The Sahel runs the length of Africa as the transition zone between the Sahara and the fertile jungles of southern Africa.
Most of the southwest US is desert with little surface water and rare periods of seasonal "monsoon" type rains. Farm crop plants (unlike desert plants) cannot handle this scarcity of water.
There is no significant farming in the Atacama. In a few areas near the rare aquifers there are some small operations that grow some tomatoes and cucumbers for the local markets.
its a cash crop
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