Saudi Arabia intends to create a smart food city in Najran with investments of more than two billion Riyals

Saudi Arabia intends to establish a smart food city in the economic city in the Najran region in the port of Saudi Arabia and Yemen port with investments estimated at 2.15 billion Riyal, according to Shaker Al -Harthi, chairman of the Smart Food City and chairman of the National Food Security Committee in the Federation of Saudi Chambers or Commercies. He said in an interview with ‘Al -Sharq’, on the sidelines of the Najran Investment Forum 2025, that the plan for this project, which extends over an area of ​​one million square meters within 3 years, has completed the completion of its construction work within 3 years, adding that the city will contain a dry harbor and will contain a fridge, and it is a fridge, an avid, dry and dry window houses. Al -Harthy noted that the project would benefit in strengthening the relationship with Yemen and creating jobs, and expressed his hope that he could attract innovations in the private sector. Food Security Projects The Food Security is one of the priorities of the Saudi Vision 2030, which will enter its third and final phase at the end of this year, and it delivered a report in 2024, giving the performance of vision indicators for the great contribution of the agricultural sector to the gross domestic product from 109 billion Riyals in 204 billion Riyals in 20 monitored. Last month, zones “Modon” announced plans to expand the food industry activities in the kingdom by establishing new industrial events and attracting the most important global food industries to build their factories in the country, in an effort to follow the opening of the first industrial event in Jeddah last year, and another dairy industry was recently introduced. In January, the Kingdom launched a city of livestock worth 9 billion Riyals, which is expected to reach its maximum production capacity within four years, as it is expected to secure 13% of Saudi food security, according to Abdullah Al -Ghamdi, chairman of the Board of Directors of the “Hafar Al -Batin Cooperative Association for Livestock” Sharq “at the time. The country has also turned abroad by investing in poultry production companies such as Brazilian BRF and the Ukrainian MHP (MHP). In addition to the kingdom’s operating farms in Arizona and California, the attempt to obtain the agricultural unit of the Singaporese “Olam Group” is.