The Department of Agricultural Affairs of the Ministry of Municipality and Environment has imported and installed 350 cool and regular greenhouses and distributed them to 85 farms. It has also imported and installed 500,000 packing boxes in 100 farms with each farm receiving 5,000 boxes. A total of 800 Qatari farms have benefited from this project.
The ministry said the provision of these greenhouses and equipment is part of the support provided to the owners of farms and its efforts to develop existing local farms and increase their production.
The support focused on supplying cool and regular greenhouses and protected houses with a hydroponic system, in addition to the production requirements of seeds, fertilisers, pesticides and other supplies such as packing boxes for marketing local vegetables in different sales outlets as well as other requirements for marketing local agricultural products.
Qatar has allocated about QR70m annually to support the agricultural sector over the next five years for plant, animal and fish production.