RIYADH: The Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture organized a virtual conference with its Dutch counterpart under the title “Exporting high-quality Saudi agricultural products to the Netherlands.”
The officials discussed the opportunities and challenges facing import and export from Saudi Arabia to the Netherlands, as well as ways to enhance production capacity and localize advanced technologies in the Kingdom.
The conference was recently held in cooperation with the Dutch Embassy in the Kingdom, the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, the General Authority for Civil Aviation, the Saudi Export Development Authority, and a number of private sector companies and major agricultural projects.
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Initiatives such as Made in Saudi could also help to boost the contribution of non-oil exports to 50 per cent by 2030, the SPA said.
Gulf countries are increasingly ramping up production to generate more economic value locally following the coronavirus pandemic. Many countries are prioritising self-sufficiency after measures to stem the pandemic disrupted trade and supply chains.
Earlier this year, Abu Dhabi unveiled a new initiative to promote locally made products in an effort to achieve self-sufficiency in the production of basic goods and to support local businesses.
The campaign, called Made in Abu Dhabi, has an Instagram page that allows local businesses to display their products, according to the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (Added).