| Food security to top agenda at Arab agricultural forum |
MUSCAT Food security in the region will top the agenda at an Arab forum on agricultural development here on Saturday.
The 32nd session of the Arab Organisation for Agricultural Development (AOAD) and the 40th session of the executive council, hosted by the Sultanate, will begin at Grand Hyatt Muscat.
The Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry will represent the Sultanate at the three-day meeting.
The opening ceremony will be patronised by HH Sayyid Shihab Bin Tariq Al Said, in the presence of Arab ministers of agriculture and officials concerned with agricultural development in the Arab World.
Ministers of Agriculture and officials in-charge for agriculture and fisheries will discuss in their meeting the progress made in executing the strategy for Arab sustainable agriculture development for the next two decades.
Arab food programme, implementation of the first stage of Arab food security emergency programme, botanical gene bank and Arab network for regional banks of animal genetic resources will be the main topics on agenda at the meeting.
A proposal for an Arab standardised guiding law for veterinary quarantine will be discussed for approval and distribution for experts in the member states. Development of agricultural sectors in Somalia, Mauritania and Sudan’s Darfur will be on the agenda. The AOAD will consider the membership of the Comoros Union to the body.
Regarding fisheries sector, the AOAD has introduced the Arab Programme for fresh water fish farming, and the meeting will review the implementation of the programme. It will also review a report by AOAD awards committee for agricultural scientific innovation for 2010-11 and a follow-up for the awards in 2012-13 edition.
Oman News Agency
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