UAE Launches Advanced Farm Technologies Programme

The UAE has unveiled a programme targeted at accelerating the process of adopting advanced agricultural technologies in the country.

The programme includes two specific initiatives, with the first focussing on the adoption of modern technology for Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA Ag-Tech), while the second aims to promote the country’s aquaculture sector, AquaTrack.

Mariam Hareb Almheiri, Minister of State for Future Food Security while unveiling the joint programme between the Future Food Security Office and the Government Accelerators at the Emirates Towers in Dubai highlighted the importance of adopting advanced agricultural technologies to ensure the UAE’s future food security while noting that their introduction will raise the country’s competitiveness in this area, said a Wam news agency report.

“We desire to cooperate with our strategic partners from relevant sectors and institutions, to create a comprehensive plan to improve crop quality and raise productivity, by adopting practical approaches based on the adoption of agricultural technologies during all stages of production,” Almheiri said.

She added that the ministry’s partnership with the Government Accelerators programme will play a key role in achieving the desired progress of the country’s agricultural sector.

The first session of the programme saw the adoption of a set of practical steps that will ensure the implementation a range of initiatives by federal and local authorities over 100 days, which will be declared along with the “National Food Security Strategy.”

Source: zawya.com