Mohammed Al-Sager: Food Security Challenges Require Raising Priorities

  • Kuwait, State of Kuwait
  • 29 June 2021
1

The Chairman of Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mohammed Al-Sager, referred to the “deep fraternal relationship that binds Kuwait and the Sultanate of Oman,” pointing to “the need to make more efforts to strengthen and support the joint economic relations, in light of the Corona pandemic, which imposes on the international community radical turns in many foundations, concepts and policies.

This came during Al-Sager’s presidency of the Kuwaiti side in a virtual meeting on “Investment in Agricultural and Fisheries Wealth in the Sultanate of Oman”, in the presence of Eng. Readh Juma Mohammed Ali Al Saleh, the Chairman of Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the participation of the Second Vice President of the Kuwait Chamber, Fahd Al-Joaan, and its GM, Rabah Al-Rabbah, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Agricultural and Fisheries Wealth and Water Resources for Agriculture in Oman, Dr. Ahmed Al-Bakri, Oman’s Ambassador to Kuwait Saleh bin Amer Al Kharousi, and a number of representatives of government and private agencies from the Sultanate.

Al-Sager explained that "the challenges of food security must rise to the highest levels of priorities, hence the importance of this meeting, which focuses on agricultural, livestock and fisheries wealth as it is the basic origin for food security, and the abundance of the Sultanate in this sector and Kuwait's need for it, which indicates the expansion of areas of cooperation between the two countries in this regard.

Al-Sager praised the development and successes achieved by the Omani business community, by exploiting the Sultanate's strategic location and establishing huge projects to develop infrastructure and build economic zones.

Source (Al-Rai Newspaper-Kuwait, Edited)

Get an annual subscription in the quarterly Arab Economic bulletin

SUBSCRIBE NOW