Qatar achieves huge leaps in food self-sufficiency

Doha: In 2020-21, the agricultural sector of  Qatar has achieved clear steps towards achieving food security, increasing agricultural production and the self-sufficiency rate of agricultural products.

The local production of vegetables jumped from about 66,000 tonnes, a 24 percent self-sufficiency rate, in 2018 to about 103,000 tonnes, a 41 percent self-sufficiency rate, noting that the target self-sufficiency rate in 2023 is 70 percent of local vegetables.

This came in a statement issued by the Ministry of Municipality and Environment on the occasion the World Food Day, which falls on October 16 of each year to commemorate the date of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945.