ADAFSA directs Abu Dhabi stores to display local produce in prominent spaces

مساحات خاصة لعرض المنتَج المحلي في منافذ البيع الكبرى تعزيزاً لتنافسيته في أسواق الإمارات

Under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs, and Chairman of Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority, ADAFSA directed major stores in Abu Dhabi to dedicate prominent spaces to display local agricultural products. This move aims at emphasizing the importance of local produce in meeting the market needs and enhancing its competitiveness in the emirate and the country’s markets 

In coordination with ADAFSA's strategic partners from various government entities, this move comes within ADAFSA’s efforts to ensure self-sufficiency in local fresh products and utilize local natural resources in supporting competitiveness and achieving sustainability.

ADAFSA affirmed that several outlets in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi have started to allocate spaces for displaying local products. On Thursday’s morning, expressions of pride in national production and local product logos adorned dozens of Abu Dhabi’s markets. These displayed hundreds of tonnes of vegetables, fruits, dates, meat, fish, dairy products, eggs and honey produced in the emirate’s farms.

In this regard, Saeed Al Bahri Salem Al Ameri, Director General of ADAFSA, said: "Sheikh Mansour’s directives translate the great attention paid by our wise leadership to promote sustainable agricultural development. These directives enhance food security system and affirm the importance of local production in establishing a diversified and sustainable national economy based on knowledge, innovation and technology. This would be realized by achieving comprehensive development in all sectors, including the agricultural one, due to its importance in achieving food security and social well-being by enabling customers’ access to fresh and high-quality local food products at all times while ensuring the highest food safety standards."

Al Ameri praised the constant follow-up of H.H. Sheikh Mansour of ADAFSA’s plans and programs, through which the authority seeks to promote the concept of sustainable agricultural development, ensure natural resources sustainability, apply best international practices and standards, and optimize partnership with the private sector to expand strategic projects of relevance to food, bio-security and agricultural sustainability.

In addition to offering logistics services to local farmers and livestock breeders, to help market their various products and increase returns, ADAFSA provides guidance to farm owners and workers, and encourages them apply the best practices to improve production operations, Al Ameri noted.

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