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Doha: The marketing platforms for agricultural produce provided by the Ministry of Municipality to local farms helped sell 58,500 tonnes of vegetables.
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Qatar: Sales of local vegetables up 60% in three years
There has been a significant increase in the volume of sales of local produce through ‘Qatar Farms’ and ‘Premium Qatari Vegetables’ marketing programmes; sales soared by more than 60 percent since the launch of these platforms.
The Head of the Agricultural Economics and Statistics Section at the Agricultural Department of the Ministry of Municipality and Environment, Mohamed Ahmed Al Khanji, who shared these figures, has added that both the programmes enable local farms to supply their produce to commercial outlets without middlemen. “With regard to the Premium Qatari Vegetables programme, we started it in 2017 when the amount of sales was about 2,740 tonnes annually, and currently we have reached 4,874 tonnes, at a rate of 66 percent growth.”