Saudi Arabia imports 70% of its food needs
Spokesman for the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) Edrees Al-Derees said the Kingdom imports around 70 percent of its...
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Saudi Arabia heavily reliant on imports of oils and fats
Saudi Arabia's market for vegetable and animal oils and fats enjoys average annual growth of 22% over 2007-2012 due to...
Saudi Water minister signs contracts worth $164 million
Water and Electricity Minister Abdullah Al-Hussein signed 20 water and sewerage projects worth SR616 million ($164 million) in various provinces...
Iraq issues tender for at least 30,000 tons rice
Iraq issued a tender to buy a minimum of 30,000 tons of rice with origins from the United States, Uruguay,...
$730 million plan to clean up Lebanon’s Litani river unveiled
Lebanese officials announced an ambitious seven-year plan that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up what they...
Halal food and lifestyle market valued at $1.6 trillion
According to a report, it has been stated that the Muslim consumer expenditure globally on food and lifestyle sectors, estimated...
Iraq and its Kurdistan Region growing markets for foreign agro-food
Iraq imports 80 percent of its food needs and its agro-food sector is growing at 25 percent a year, making...
Saudi Arabia produces only quarter of its olive demand
Only 25 percent of Saudi Arabia's need for olives is locally produced, said Garman Al-Omari, an olive plant owner in...
Iraq Agro-Food 2013 exhibition kicks off in Erbil
Professor Serwan Baban, Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government officially opened the Iraq Agrofood 2013,...
Qatar seeks to invest in Saudi farm sector
Qatar is seeking to invest in the Saudi agricultural sector, an official from the Qatar National Food Security Programme (QNFSP)...
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