Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: The Abu Dhabi Food Safety and Agriculture Authority, ADAFSA, has developed the unique Agricultural Oasis Exhibition at the Sheikh Zayed Festival to provide visitors with a distinctive experience, presenting innovative and modern agricultural methods and techniques and showing its importance in agriculture. production processes through the four sections of the pavilion: the farmer’s market, smart services, the sale and production of honey and home cultivation.
In the Smart Services section, ADAFSA has used screens to present and explain its strategic objectives when it comes to protecting natural resources, the environment and ensuring a sustainable food supply, in line with ADAFSA’s smart transformation.
Dr. Mohammed Salman Al Hammadi, Director of ADAFSA’s Communication and Community Services Division, said: “Through the Agricultural Oasis Exhibition at the Sheikh Zayed Festival, we aim to raise awareness among the public of the indispensable importance of agriculture, through a series of activities and special events and the sale of certain products, showing the role of ADAFSA and its services in providing modern technologies and methods used in agriculture, as well as shedding more light on the methods in evolution of agricultural production.
Al Hammadi pointed out that ADAFSA had set aside a special section for the sale of high-quality UAE honey products to highlight beekeepers and the natural honey production process. The section introduces different types and grades of natural honey and explains the benefits of bees in agriculture. The ADSAFSA pavilion reflects the journey of the honey industry and shows how bee hives are built, the practice of supplemental feeding of bees and how honey is extracted in a sustainable way that maintains its quality.
Al Hammadi noted that the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority wants to show visitors to the Festival the great strides Abu Dhabi has seen in the fields of agriculture, food safety, food security and organic products, and highlight the emirate’s efforts to improve this sector, achieve sustainable development concepts, adopt modern technologies in agriculture, support local products, establish its position in the market, and support farmers to strengthen the UAE’s food security system.
ADAFSA works to educate and inform farmers about the application of the agricultural extension guide to tablets and smartphones with the aim of spreading knowledge about the concepts of sustainable agriculture and helping farmers and ranchers apply best practices in agriculture. and livestock.
Through its pavilion at the Festival, ADAFSA shows its strategies in the development and control of a sustainable, efficient, flexible and integrated food supply system, and empowerment plans for agricultural development through innovation, investment, promotion of good agricultural practices, promotion of competitive local product, and raising the level of awareness and participation of the community in the use of organic agricultural products.
In order to make visitors more aware of the importance of organic farming and the use of natural materials, ADAFSA has listed a series of educational information in a useful manual for visitors that they can download to their smartphones simply scanning a QR Code. The manual includes information on fermionic and photovoltaic pest traps, citrus tree protection, fertilizer deficiency symptoms, agricultural pesticides that are banned in the UAE, palm tree pest symptoms, and good practices for palm tree plantations, date production, adequate and safe circulation of agricultural materials. , unhealthy farming practices, and other important agricultural issues.
In the farmers’ market section, participants sell their produce to the public at reasonable prices. Honey producer Kamel Al Jabri thanked the Sheikh Zayed Festival for providing the pavilion in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority as a unique platform to display the products of his apiary, which represent some of the most High quality, proudly produced in the United Arab Emirates.
A farm owner’s representative, Reda Syed, said, “We have been participating in the Sheikh Zayed Festival for 3 years and showcasing our organic products, free from all chemical fertilizers, which is a goal that the Authority is pursuing in bringing farmers to the Festival to exhibit their organic products, encouraging other farmers to follow the same steps.
Throughout 2020 and 2021, ADAFSA successfully built partnerships with various investment firms that led to the adoption of 13 investment projects in the fields of fish farming, livestock farming and organic products, with a total value of approximately AED 1.2 billion to support growth and economic prosperity. of the emirate.
The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority is the local government entity in charge of agriculture, food security, food security and biosecurity in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Its objective is to develop a sustainable agricultural and food sector and protect the health of animals and plants to improve biosecurity and achieve sustainable food security through the preparation of plans, programs and activities in the field.
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