Towards food self-sufficiency – The Peninsula

Towards food self-sufficiency – The Peninsula

Qatar through a number of innovative agricultural initiatives, taken in recent years, and through enhancing supply chain network and storage capabilities has succeeded in ensuring food security for its population.

The National Food Security Strategy of Qatar (2018-2023) aims to achieve an abundance of food through local production, strategic storage, and securing import sources and that food prices are appropriate and accessible to all.

The National Food Security Strategy in Qatar (2018-2023) is based on five main pillars: international trade and logistics, local self-sufficiency, strategic stocks, local markets and supply chains, and research and development.

Minister of Municipality H E Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Subaie on Thursday launched the book of the Executive Report of the Agricultural Census in Qatar for the year 2021, which was completed in cooperation between the Ministry and Qatar University represented by the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute.

The agricultural census project, which was completed under the supervision of the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development, is considered one of the most important statistical projects in the regional and international arena, as it is one of the main pillars of the planning process and building agricultural strategies in both its plant and animal parts.

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