A new building for the Agricultural Research Centre will be constructed next year in three phases and will be completed by 2020, an official of the Ministry of Municipality and Environment said.
Masoud Jarallah Al-Murri, Director of Agricultural Research Department at the Ministry, said that the building will be constructed on an area of 270,000 square metres at a cost of QR300m.
It consists of a main dome, an administrative integrated building, a theatre to host events, exhibitions and lectures in addition to about nine specialized labs including the Thermal Resistance Laboratory, Pathology Laboratory and Tissue Cultivation Laboratory. The building will also have accommodations for experts, researchers and guests, among other facilities.
The design phase has been completed and will be approved before mid-2017. The project will start in early 2018 and will end by 2020. He also said that the Department has taken over the Livestock Production Research Station in Al-Shaihaniya, which was established at a cost of QR29m, pointing out that the station, which includes a number of important facilities, will be opened during the first quarter of this year.
