Local produce instrumental in bolstering food security

Local produce instrumental in bolstering food security

Workers collecting vegetables from a farm.

Jamil Khan, Senior Reporter

A local family in Filli Al Madam village have been maintaining a huge farm to preserve their culture of farming with the intention of transferring the knowledge to their next generation and playing their vital role in local food security.

"We are farming different varieties of vegetables like tomatoes, marrow, capsicum (bell pepper), cucumber, eggplant, ladyfinger, green peppers, lemon apart from various kinds of dates in our farm on a big scale and most importantly using natural resources and completely avoiding pesticides or chemicals in any stage,“ said Hamad Khalifa Al Kabbi, the owner of the farm while talking to a group of media. They hosted a group of local journalists at their family farm to showcase the modified techniques of agriculture to producing 100 per cent natural vegetables.

The Al Kabbi family has been maintaining this farm for generations on a small scale but in 1997, his son took an interest in expanding the farm which is now spread over 40 acres. "We have a group of 16 farmers from Sindh, Pakistan and with their hard work we expanded our farm land and started growing many vegetables and varieties of dates on a