22 Feb 2021 - 9:44
By Sidi Mohamed | The Peninsula
Doha: There has been a significant increase in the volume of sales of local produce through ‘Qatar Farms’ and ‘Premium Qatari Vegetables’ marketing programmes as the sales soared by more than 60 percent since the launch of the 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, further said 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,” he said. As for Qatar farms, Al Khanji said, while speaking to Qatar TV yesterday, that the volume of sales was 11,000 tonnes and currently it reached 19,000 t