‘Khawlani beans’ successfully planted in Riyadh

‘Khawlani beans’ successfully planted in Riyadh

Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — Through protected houses, the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA) has started growing Khawlani coffee beans in Riyadh. The experiment was a huge success as coffee seedlings were brought in from farms in the south, and their cultivation was tested in Riyadh in protected buildings, which provided the ideal atmosphere for coffee production. Dr. Ali Abdel Jalil, adviser to the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and supervisor of research and study of promising plants, told Al-Arabiya that the goal of the experiment was to change the production base for farmers and introduce crops with efficient and high economic returns to the farms. "We import more than 95% of our needs from other countries, so we started developing it and selecting good kinds in order to extend its cultivation throughout the Kingdom,” he said. "We began to grow coffee in protected zones that control the temperature and discovered that it began to give high output, twice as much as what is produced in the open ground," Dr. Abdel Jalil said, adding that this was a green light for the farmers and investors to begin planting coffee in huge quantities. He said the yield in