MME signs agreement to enhance food security
The Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME), represented by the agricultural sector, signed an agreement to implement contracts for three agricultural projects to produce green fodder using treated wastewater, with three private companies to produce about 10 thousand tons per year, at a production rate of up to 20 tons per year per hectare each.
Plots of land for these projects have been allocated in three areas: Al-Karaana, with a total area of about 1.5 million square meters, and Bu Glaila, with an area of about two million square meters, and Aba Al Hiran, with an area of about three million square meters.
The Ministry of Municipality and Environment has signed a number of contracts and agreements with some concerned authorities in the country to enhance food security and achieve self-sufficiency in strategic commodities. #QNAhttps://t.co/ZqoEs0uOeUhttps://t.co/o3aZZEtrUc pic.twitter.com/L34cu2e75W
Due to increasing demand, projects to produce green fodder using treated wastewater are one of the important and vital projects that support food security.
Assistant Director of the Agricultural Affairs Department of the MME, Adel Al Keldi Al Yafei said, projects to produce green fodder using treated wastewater aim to cover the needs of the local market, noting their role in preserving groundwater by reducing dependence on groundwater and moving to use treated wastewater.
The local market's annual consumption of green fodder is about 215 thousand tons, while the total production is 115 thousand tons annually, with a self-sufficiency rate of 54 percent.
These strategic projects are expected to cover about 10 percent of the domestic consumption gap, as the green fodder production in the State of Qatar will reach about 125,300 tons per year.
Meanwhile, the MME and the Qatar Livestock Society (Anaam) signed an MoU to launch an initiative to rehabilitate and afforest the mobile farms in the country, with the aim of contributing to preserving the environment and intensifying the vegetation cover with wild tree species from the Qatari environment.
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