From today, the residents of Qatar will be able to enjoy real flavour and freshness of locally produced high-quality vegetables as two ministries have decided to market them starting from Al Meera.
The Ministry of Municipality and Environment in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy and Commerce and Al Meera yesterday announced adopting a new initiative for marketing high-quality Qatari vegetables.
The programme depends on marketing only the best Qatari farms which produce the best quality vegetables very similar to European standards. The first phase will start in Al Meera, and 16 farms will participate in the initiative.
According to few months' old statistics, there are more than 1,200 farms in the country, but only a small number of them commercially produce fruits and vegetables.
Meanwhile, Al Rayyan Municipality in October registered 168 violations during 701 inspection-visits and destroyed 37 whole-sheep and 340kg of meat unfit for human consumption. It also collected QR433000 as fines.
