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Dubai, UAE, 26 March 2013: His Excellency Abdul Rahman Al Owais, UAE Minister of Health has officially inaugurated AGRA Middle East and VET Middle East today, the region’s specialist agribusiness and veterinary ...

Dubai, UAE, 26 March 2013: His Excellency Abdul Rahman Al Owais, UAE Minister of Health has officially inaugurated AGRA Middle East and VET Middle East today, the region’s specialist agribusiness and veterinary ...

Dubai, UAE, 25 March 2013: A shortlist of 18 agricultural projects will take centre stage tomorrow as they contend to win the inaugural AGRAme Awards, aiming to recognise organisations ...

Dubai, UAE, 17 March 2013: With GCC food imports costing 18 times more than 10 years ago, and water availability set to reach acute levels by 2025, change is needed if the region is to maintain ...

Dubai, UAE, 20 February 2013: More than 2.4 million tonnes of livestock forage will be imported into Saudi Arabia annually by 2016 if it is to keep up with the Kingdom’s booming dairy and poultry industries...

More than 200 agriculture, poultry, fishing, and horticulture businesses will gather in Dubai next month at the Middle East’s largest agribusiness trade event, in a joint effort to help the region combat its food...

Eng. Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director General, Dubai Municipality, officially inaugurated the specialist agribusiness and veterinary trade events, AGRA Middle East and VET Middle East, today (Monday 2 April, 2012)...

A case study of an award winning irrigation system capable of saving up to 85 per cent more water than traditional irrigation systems and proven to be twice as productive will be presented to delegates at the Agribusiness Outlook Forum tomorrow (Monday) in Dubai...

The Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (EAD) has developed a strategic plan for the management of the Emirate’s water resources to combat the threat of severe shortages in future, delegates at the Agribusiness Outlook Forum in Dubai were told today...

As the GCC faces challenges of food security due to a shortage of natural resources and limited water, an improved collaboration between its member states is necessary to devise a sustainable agricultural system, an industry expert has said...

MENA Governments are being urged by an agriculture expert to address food scarcity issues to safeguard meagre natural resources and ensure self-sufficiency for a sustainable future...

The Municipality of Fujairah has finished installing 20 grain silos near the seaport here as part of a strategic food security project in the UAE.The project consists of two phases, first of which has already ...

His Highness begins drive by planting a tree at Dubai Police Academy; attends graduation ceremony. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Wednesday launched a new initiative to plant one million trees in Dubai.

Abu Dhabi’s Al Dahra Agricultural Company is halfway through a Dh1 billion (US$272.2 million) investment plan involving more than 60,700 hectaresof farmland in Europe, the US, south Asia and north Africa to boost the UAE’s food security, a senior official said.

United States farmers are shipping hay and grasses halfway around the world to the Arabian Gulf and in less than a year have captured half of a burgeoning United Arab Emirates market worth between $250 million and $500 million a year, say industry traders...

Strategies to secure ready access to affordable, nutritious and safe for consumption food commodities is top of the agenda for Middle East governments, say the organisers of the region’s biggest agricultural business trade show opening today (Monday 29 March 2010) at the Dubai World Trade Centre...

Experts to present latest technology, equipment and ecological methods to increase local food production at region’s biggest agribusiness show...

Alternative technologies and new green crops could revolutionise agriculture in the Middle East, say the organisers of the region’s biggest agri-business trade event...

The Middle East is investing heavily in innovative farming methods in a bid to reduce growing dependence on the rest of the world for up to 90% of food needs, say the organisers of the region’s biggest agri-business trade event...