Achieving food security is the top priority of Kuwait, said Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, the Head of the Ministerial Committee for Development and Infrastructure Projects on Tuesday.

Food security file tops the list of the Ministerial Committee priorities with the aim of implementing the Royal directives of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to develop a strategic project for the national production of food, said the Deputy PM, reported the country’s state media KUNA.

“Achieving food security requires taking care of the agriculture sector in the Kingdom in order to reach an advanced level in developing the areas of self-sufficiency, national capabilities in the field of food industries, raising the percentage of local production and preserving the experience of the professionals,” said the Deputy PM.

Earlier in World Food Day in October 2019, Kuwaiti Ambassador to Italy Sheikh Azzam Al-Sabah affirmed had said that the Gulf nation’s committed to ensure food security for its people and the world and support sustainable development.

Kuwait recently established an independent public nutrition body to help achieve food security and nutrition in the country.

Shaikh Khalid visited the Agricultural Incubators Center in Aali, which is supervised by the Agriculture and Marine Resources of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Ministry in cooperation with the National Initiative for Agriculture Development (NIAD) chaired by Her Royal Highness Princess Sabeeka bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, Wife of His Majesty the King, and President of the Supreme Council of Women (SCW).

Deputy Premier heard the farmers’ proposals that will contribute to develop their work and achieve desired benefit, especially with regard to marketing, such as giving preference to the local vegetable product, providing basic facilities and services and infrastructure works in a high horizon, and creating appropriate factors for them that enable them to apply the latest agricultural technologies, such as hydroponics, instead of using traditional methods at high cost.