{"id":370149,"date":"2024-07-15T10:43:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T13:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=370149"},"modified":"2024-07-15T10:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T13:43:42","slug":"saudi-arabia-to-implement-new-agriculture-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-arabia-to-implement-new-agriculture-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia to implement new agriculture projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Saudi Arabia\u2019s food security is set to strengthen with new investments in the agriculture sector of Al-Baha, a mountain region in the southwest of the country. The projects include cultivating orchards, coffee, palm trees, and producing flowers and wild plants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arab News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investment opportunities feature a coffee city project aiming to cultivate more than 150,000 trees, with a production capacity surpassing 15,000 tonnes. The Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture has set a submission deadline of September 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another initiative is the Al-Ennab Village project, situated near Al-Janabeen Dam, focusing on cultivating palm and fruit trees. The deadline for bids for this project is September 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the lavender fields project opportunity aims to plant over 2,500 lavender seedlings annually. The deadline for submitting bids is September 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more:<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/uae-saudi-arabia-iraq-more-poultry-from-brazil\/\">UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq: More poultry from Brazil<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, there is a fruit nursery project in the Qilwah governorate aimed at cultivating 100,000 seedlings annually for all types of fruits. Bids are scheduled to be submitted by the end of September 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry announced the launch of an alliance with several partners to unite stakeholders, catalyzing the national-scale deployment of agrifood technological solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Saudi Arabia&#8217;s <strong>self-sufficiency<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudi Arabia, despite about 90% of its territory being desert, is leading an agricultural boom aimed at boosting domestic crop production and reducing dependence on imported food to achieve self-sufficiency under Vision 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has already achieved complete self-sufficiency in dates, fresh dairy products, and table eggs, according to the General Authority for Statistics\u2019 Agricultural Statistics Publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-370145\">\u00a9Fayez Nureldine\/AFP<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investments in the Al-Baha region include coffee cultivation and a fruit nursery aimed at reducing dependence on imported food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":370145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[1916,8332,23327,2540,50163,9595],"class_list":{"0":"post-370149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agribusiness","8":"tag-coffee","9":"tag-farming","10":"tag-flowers","11":"tag-fruits","12":"tag-saudi-agriculture","13":"tag-saudi-arabia-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Investments in the Al-Baha region include coffee cultivation and a fruit nursery aimed at reducing dependence on imported food.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}