Under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Agriculture and Food Safety ... The authority instructed all major sales outlets in Abu Dhabi and in coordination with its strategic partners from government agencies to allocate display areas for local agricultural products The importance of the local product in meeting the market needs and enhancing its competitiveness in the emirate and state markets, as part of its efforts to raise the self-sufficiency rate of fresh local food products and the exploitation of local natural resources on scientific and economic grounds capable of Competition and sustainability.
The authority confirmed that a large group of outlets in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi started allocating places for displaying local products, as dozens of markets adorned the words of pride in national production and the slogans of the local product and displayed hundreds of tons of vegetables, fruits, dates, meat, fish, dairy products and their products, table eggs and honey produced by the emirate's farms.
Saeed Al-Bahri Salem Al-Amri, Director General of the authority said, “His Highness’s directives confirm the great attention our leadership gives to promoting agricultural development and working to sustain it in order to consolidate the food security system and affirming the importance of local production in establishing a diversified and sustainable national economy based on knowledge, innovation and technology through achieving Comprehensive development in all sectors, including the agricultural sector, both plant and animal, as it is one of the most important pillars of food security and ways to achieve social welfare by ensuring the access of fresh and high-quality local food products to society at all times. Conditions and at the same time ensuring the highest levels of safety of food. "
Al Amri appreciated the continuous follow-up of His Highness to the plans and programs of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Agriculture and Food Safety, which seeks to establish the concept of sustainable agricultural development and ensure the sustainability of natural resources and the adoption of best practices and the highest relevant international standards and maximize partnership with the private sector to expand the establishment of strategic projects in the areas of food and biological security and agricultural sustainability And provide logistical services to local farmers and livestock breeders to help them market their various products and increase the economic return from them, as well as the authority’s role in guiding and building the capabilities of owners and The farmer's money and encouraging them to adopt best practices, which is reflected in the promotion of production processes and improving their efficiency.
He praised the great cooperation and rapid response of the authority’s partners in the private sector to implement directives and allocating places for displaying local products, stressing that the close and exceptional relations between the government and private sectors in the country represent the locomotive of the economic and comprehensive development of the country and embody a unique case of joint cooperation to advance the public interest and maintain the path of growth, prosperity and development that The state has taken a step forward to be a leader in various sectors and fields.
It is noteworthy that the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority launched earlier the first brand of local products under the slogan "Harvest of our farms" to enhance consumer demand to buy local products and promote them so that these products have the position they deserve and enhance their competition in the market.
The authority succeeded in concluding hundreds of supply contracts with local farmers, whose farm productivity is estimated at thousands of tons of vegetables and fruits annually, as the authority works on marketing them through brand name outlets and a large number of hypermarkets and cooperative societies in the emirate.