Ministry of Surroundings, Water and Agriculture constructing
The Ministry of Surroundings, Water and Agriculture revealed that the full manufacturing of agricultural and meals commodities will rise to greater than 16 million tons in 2024.
The Ministry said that this contributed to growing the sector’s contribution to the gross home product, reaching about 31.5 billion {dollars} (equal to 118.1 billion riyals).
This got here in the course of the participation of the Director of the Nationwide Agriculture Technique Implementation Division on the Ministry, Engineer Ali Ahmed Al-Zahrani, in a dialogue session throughout the actions of the Saudi Agricultural Exhibition 2025 in the course of the interval from 20 to 23 October.
He said that the Ministry launched 38 nationwide initiatives, throughout the Nationwide Technique for Agriculture, indicating that the agricultural sector has achieved outstanding progress and nice achievements in lots of indicators of agricultural manufacturing, because the compound annual development charge of the home product in the course of the previous 5 years exceeded 7%, and the appliance of efficient irrigation programs contributed to decreasing using non-renewable water in agriculture by 52% in comparison with 2016, whereas the full agricultural loans elevated. The concession supplied by the Agricultural Growth Fund quantities to greater than $1.9 billion.
Al-Zahrani pointed to many funding alternatives for the non-public sector, within the fields of plant and animal manufacturing, which included built-in tasks for the manufacturing of seeds and seedlings, the manufacturing and processing of vegetables and fruit, intensive livestock breeding tasks, fish farming, and the manufacturing of large-sized poultry for chopping functions, including that the gross home manufacturing of fruits exceeded 2.9 million tons, together with dates, with sufficiency. The speed of self-sufficiency reached 64%, relying in its manufacturing primarily on open programs, with a noticeable growth in shaded home programs, whereas native manufacturing of greens exceeded 3.5 million tons, with a self-sufficiency charge of 78%.
