Agricultural lands comprise areas that are actively or recently managed for crop production, oases, or irrigated cultivation. These landscapes are strongly shaped by long-term human management, water abstraction, and soil modification, and form an important component of the cultural landscape of AlUla.
Agricultural lands occur primarily within valley floors, oases, and low-lying plains where access to groundwater, springs, or surface water has enabled sustained cultivation.
Agricultural Lands
This includes all agricultural land in AlUla, including the oasis areas, fields and pivot agriculture, both in areas where agriculture is active and in recently abandoned areas.
Vegetation is dominated by cultivated (particularly date palm Phoenix dactylifera), non-native fruit trees, and seasonal crops. Some agricultural areas can support a relatively high diversity of weedy and ruderal plant species, reflecting frequent disturbance, irrigation, nutrient enrichment, and the mixing of native, naturalised, and introduced taxa.
Adapted from The Habitats of AlUla – Technical Manual (AFALULA, 2026).