His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan presented a happy message to the owners of the farms and the producers of agricultural products for the citizens, good news that gave them hope, laid the first steps for a solution, drew a new spark for success, and gave them a strong impetus to overcome one of the biggest problems that impede their path, and almost frustrated Their ambitions, and end the march of continuing in this important vital sector, after they almost lost hope in the improvement of their conditions, it is a problem of marketing products that they make a huge effort, and they spend a lot of money, until they reap their fruits, but they often find no way towards a marketing window to sell them!

Mansour bin Zayed announced it clearly, directly, and powerfully: “We committed to the law, shops, associations, and supermarkets to allocate a section for the local product, and therefore the citizen producers will find a suitable place through which they can market their products, instead of relying on a merchant marketer, and they will obtain An opportunity and possibility, from directly displaying and marketing their products, in those places. ”

A decision in its place, which is not only a support to the citizen farmers, but rather a rescue for an entire sector, a vital and important sector, a sector that has been proven to us today to be pivotal and we cannot do without, as it is linked to our food security, yet it has suffered for many years the lack of protection and competitive pressures Huge, and the absence of marketing outlets, allowing citizens producers to sell their products, to continue working without losses, yet they continued, and worked hard, even though most of them had to throw their products, after they were damaged, because there was no one to buy them!

The requirement for a marketing window is a basic requirement that every Emirati farmer currently needs, all of whom wish to have a market that brings them together as Emirati farmers under the slogan "one product", and a point of contact between them on the one hand, and the merchants of owners of large companies and large markets, especially since the UAE farms are currently , Produces the best types of vegetables, the best types of dates, and produces more than 90 varieties of fruits. However, farmers have no marketing outlet to display and market their products.

One of the young Emirati producers, who has great experience in agriculture, and he is the owner of one of the best farms in the country. He says: “If the owner of the farm is a citizen, if he reaches his product to the market, his price will decrease to less than half. For example, the price of (figs) in farms ranges from Between 60 and 70 dirhams, but the authorities designated for sale buy it for 20 dirhams, which leads some citizens to stop working, because these prices do not cover the cost of production »!

Such a problem is repeated in the rest of the vegetable varieties, to the degree that some farmers offered the crop of cucumbers, and in large quantities to livestock, because they did not find anyone to buy them at cost!

Therefore, what His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, may God preserve him, did was not an ordinary thing, it is exactly the process of reviving, saving and pumping a new life for tens of thousands of Emirati farmers and producers, a qualitative step that will move this sector from despair to a full stage Hopefully, at a very important time, and in exceptional circumstances, which we have not seen before, and with this right decision and direct support, the agricultural sector will revive, and it will strengthen the government's pioneering steps in the area of ​​food security and raising the level of food security to advanced levels.

His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed, I announce this decision before His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, may God protect him, so why did His Highness comment?

Comment by a few words, but they are a happy second good news not only to farmers but also to the entire people of the Emirates, where Mohammed bin Zayed, may God protect him, said: “All that is easy, provides, encourages, and believes, we encourage and support it.”

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