Meet The Farmers Conference helps participants and off-takers in Africa and the GCC region meet with farmers, network with stakeholders, investors and establish key partnership with individuals at different points in the African agriculture value chain.

In 2018, Meet the Farmers Conference held in Rwanda, Dubai, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana and there, experts from different sectors gave keynote speeches, held panel discussions and participated in Q&A sessions to address issues of trade and investments in Agriculture. This year’s MTFC will hold on the 28th and 29th November in Dubai.

The collaboration is strategic in providing value and opportunity for farmers to leverage on the already established training facilities of Gracia Farms on hydroponics to African countries.

This partnership compliments the theme of Meet the Farmers Conference 2019: Creating a Sustainable Future. This theme places key focus on food security, trade and technology.

Hydroponics is noticeably better than conventional farming methods already being practiced in Africa. With this partnership in place, the agricultural sector in Africa will greatly improve.

Potential future collaborations and implementation of Hydroponics systems in several African countries were discussed.

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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

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