With the Saudi Agriculture show coming up this month in Riyadh, the topic of food security, healthy nutrition and innovative agro-tech solutions is all the more actual. Vision 2030 defines agriculture as one of five main strategic sectors, including aerospace and automotive. Saudi Arabia’s two new “Green” initiatives will be partly driven by the Strategy for Sustainable Development of Agriculture, a component of Vision 2030. This overall strategy has four main targets: Efficient and sustainable use of agricultural and natural resources; comprehensive and sustainable food security; improvement in agricultural efficiency and productivity; and sustainable rural development. Although agriculture is projected to grow by 5 percent annually over the next five years, the Kingdom still faces challenges in terms of its 1.7 percent annual population growth which means it will not stop importing some foods. So investment in the local agrifood complex will go hand in hand with an international investment strategy to secure food imports.
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