Dubai licenses local farms to display products at retail outlets as part of food security drive
Dubai’s Business Registration and Licensing (BRL) unit has granted licences to agricultural and livestock farms to allow them to display their products at retail outlets.
“The UAE is taking concerted efforts to build an agricultural sector that can contribute to food diversity and the national economy,” said BRL’s director of business registration division, Walid Abdel Malik, in a statement on the Dubai Media Office site on Tuesday (June 23).
The UAE has made food security a priority. In 2017 it established a State Ministry for Food Security, which led to the UAE National Food Security Strategy 2051 formulation.
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