Sarah MacDonald

Stu­dents in Mus­cat have de­vel­oped a soil al­ter­na­tive from date palm leaves, which they say will boost lo­cal agri­cul­ture.

Tra­di­tion­al­ly re­liant on oil rev­enues, the Gulf coun­try is mak­ing tourism a cen­tral plank of its eco­nom­ic strat­e­gy.