Qatar made great leap in food security – The Peninsula

Qatar made great leap in food security – The Peninsula

Doha: Qatar made remarkable achievements in lifting the self-sufficiency rate of the country in some fresh foods production including vegetables, livestock and fish in 2022.

Many projects were launched by the Ministry of Municipality under Qatar National Food Security Strategy 2018-2023 to increase production of local vegetables and table eggs to 70 percent, fish to 90 percent, shrimp to 100 percent and production of red meat to 30 percent of total domestic demand by 2023.

In a statement, Director of the Food Security Department at the Ministry of Municipality Dr. Masoud Jarallah Al Marri said that self-sufficiency rate in the production of local vegetables increased from about 20 percent in 2017 to reach about 46 percent in 2022, an increase of about 130%.

In the field of livestock production, he said, levels of self-sufficiency in animal products have improved, as the percentage of self-sufficiency in milk and its products increased from only 28% in 2017 to 100% in 2022, which means that the sufficiency rate has quadrupled over the last five years.

Self-sufficiency in the production of fresh broiler chicken also increased from 50% in 2017 to 100% in 2022, and table eggs from 14% in 2017 to 36% in 2022, with an increase