Ministry of Municipality to ensure fair price for local agro produce in peak season

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Municipality has enhanced efforts to ensure reasonable prices for local agricultural produce, especially during peak seas...

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Municipality has enhanced efforts to ensure reasonable prices for local agricultural produce, especially during peak season when the market receives vegetables in large quantities from Qatari farms and abroad.

The Ministry represented by the Agricultural Affairs Department is running several initiatives from providing agricultural inputs to marketing platforms to reduce the production cost of local farms enabling them to compete with imported produce.

The new initiative is to allow only high-quality agricultural produce during the peak season to curb the local market flood with vegetables.

“We are constantly in touch with the ministries concerned and held a number of meeting with them to address the problem faced by the local farmers related to importing agricultural produce in large quantity during peak season from January to April,” said Head of Agricultural Guidance and Services Section at the Agricultural Affairs Department, Ministry of Municipality, Ahmed Salem Al Yafei.

Speaking in a Qatar TV programme recently, he said that the Department in coordination with the authorities concerned is trying to allow the import of high-quality vegetables of A category following local specifications.