Construction of 1,000 new agricultural production projects Agriculture and Food

These farms are already in existence with infrastructure and services such as water and electricity, enabling them to become productive with minimal support and effort, and as soon as their production enters the local market to meet the needs," he said. Al-Kaabi wondered why this feature has been neglected and pushed towards the establishment of new projects that need a budget to spend on providing the infrastructure and facilities needed by these projects for production, which puts the country more burdens. "Therefore, converting 1000 farms from the current farms to a producer is the construction of 1,000 new agricultural production projects and not 10 projects, at a lower cost to the state and higher production rates," he added. Al-Kaabi pointed out that the first goal to achieve it at the present time is to complete the conversion of all Qatar farms to productive, stressing the importance of studying the needs of real farms that would achieve national goals to achieve self-sufficiency. He stressed that the issue of support is one of the central issues in reaching the national goals through the identification of those who are entitled to it accurately to be very effective for all, calling on the concerned parties to give the allocated support to non-producing farms to generate the desired boom. Al-Kaabi called on the concerned authorities to reconsider these projects again, stressing that the state is exerting great efforts to develop the agricultural sector, and also provided huge potential, so only need to optimize distribution to reach the goals of the state. "No one denies the efforts of the concerned authorities in the municipality to establish marketing platforms, which are an important form of support," Ali al-Kaabi said.

The owners of the farms demanded the concerned authorities in the Ministry of Municipality and Environment to work on converting the existing farms to produce before embarking on the establishment of new agricultural production projects, stressing the necessity of directing attention to this goal until it is achieved and then thinking of other solutions to increase production. The owners of the farms to the East that the conversion of existing farms to productive represents the establishment of more than 1000 new agricultural production projects, stressing that the completion of this is easy because of the availability of infrastructure and services such as electricity and water in these farms. Farm owners called on officials to channel support for transforming existing farms into productive ones, noting that the launch of new projects now needs to be reconsidered. He warned farmers that the launch of bids for the establishment of feed projects at this time will increase production costs and then contribute to the increase prices of the final product, whether dairy or meat, and not vice versa. In this context, Mr. Ali Al-Kaabi, owner of the global farm, stressed that the introduction of new projects for agricultural production is not feasible in existence

More than 1400 farms are mostly unproductive, pointing out that the attention of the concerned authorities in the Ministry of Municipality to develop these farms and turn them into a more productive producer of local farms and will contribute to increase production and achieve self-sufficiency. He continued: »The current farms are divided into several categories, recreational and abandoned and semi-productive and productive and the latter category is the lowest compared to the last categories, where no more than 300 farms