Greenhouse project in full gear in Bidiya

Agricultural production has started in the greenhouse project in Wadi Bani Khalid which is set up jointly between the Agricultural Development Section and the Social Development Section in the Wilayat of Bidiya, and funded by Oman Liquefied Natural Gas Company (OLNGC), and aims at spreading awareness about greenhouse farming among farmers and the general public in the wilayat, as well as guide and provide the needy and those with limited income to a way of generating income. The project has ample produce of different kinds of vegetables especially cucumber. The Social Development Section of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries conducts training to members of the social insurance families and limited-income people on the methods of greenhouse farming and how to make the most of them to their own benefit. The Oman Liquefied Natural Gas Company is providing both the financial and technical support to the greenhouse farming project established in the wilayat. The Social Development Section had picked the citizens who were to benefit from the project taking care that all the beneficiaries were among the low-income and the social insurance segments. The project provides the wilayat’s need of vegetables such as tomato and cucumber which now flows in large quantities to the Khalidiay market on a daily basis.