Doha: The Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) has created Food Security Department under a recent administrative restructuring of the Ministry to enhance the state efforts to ensure food security in the country with special focus on increasing fresh local food production including vegetables, fish, milk and meat.
“The Food Security Department will work as an umbrella organisation under which all food security programs will be implemented in collaboration with the department concerned like agriculture, animal and fish,” Masoud Jarullah Al Marri, Head of the newly created Food Security Department told The Peninsula.
Al Marri is also the Executive Secretary of the Committee for Monitoring the Implementation of Food Security Policies in the Public and Private Sector of Qatar.
He said that the Department will help remove the obstacles in the way of implementing food security programs.
“The Department will prepare a complete food security programme to achieve the state goals in this regards,” said Masoud Jarullah Al Marri, adding the Department will monitor and follow up all programmes and projects of food security.
He said the function of the Department is also to implement the sustainable strategic project of the Ministry and those related to food security.
He said that the Department will also follow up the projects for producing green fodder which were launched by the Ministry. “The Department will also follow up the under construction projects of fish farming,” said Al Marri.
He said that the new Department has made a plan to evaluate all existing and new projects in a bid to boost these projects and to propose new projects to increase the self-sufficiency rate of Qatar in food production. He said the Department will propose the projects, set up the mechanism for them, divide the projects in phases for implementation and look into the financial and technical requirements.
