Dubai Municipality launches second Hatta Farming Festival

Dubai Municipality has launched the 2nd variation of the Hatta Farming Festival arsenic portion of the ‘Dubai Farms’ programme, an inaugural spearheaded by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, and Chairman of the Higher Committee for Development and Citizens Affairs.

The festival kicked disconnected contiguous astatine Leem Lake and volition proceed until 22 January. Featuring 25 Emirati farmers, homesteaders, and section cultivation companies, the lawsuit is designed to showcase cultivation products and services, foster collaboration, and enactment the UAE's increasing cultivation market."

The Hatta Farming Festival is being held nether the umbrella of the Hatta Winter inaugural launched nether the directives and patronage of His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Second Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Media Council. Organised nether the supervision of the Supreme Committee to Oversee the Development of Hatta, and implemented by Brand Dubai, the originative limb of the Government of Dubai Media Office, Hatta Winter invites residents and visitors to research the unsocial experiences offered by the mountainous portion during the cooler months of the year.

The Hatta Farming Festival highlights the region’s imaginable arsenic a premier agri-tourism destination, leveraging its unsocial environmental, social, and practice diversity. The inaugural aligns with Dubai’s imaginativeness to enactment nationalist farmers, beforehand sustainable practices, and heighten Hatta's relation arsenic a starring cultivation and tourism hub.

The festival besides supports the objectives of the Hatta Comprehensive Development Plan and the initiatives of the Supreme Committee to Oversee the Development of Hatta, which question to boost economical and tourism opportunities, promote section enterprises, and observe the region’s affluent cultivation heritage.

Her Excellency Dr. Amna bint Abdullah Al Dhahak, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, said the lawsuit is aligned with the UAE’s efforts to beforehand sustainable nationalist nutrient security, which is among the country’s apical priorities for the UAE and plays a cardinal relation successful driving broad improvement successful each sectors. She highlighted the important relation of agriculture and the value of expanding section accumulation of strategical crops and reducing reliance connected nutrient imports.

"As portion of our efforts to bolster agriculture and foster section nutrient production, we launched the Plant the Emirates National Programme. The inaugural aims to grow cultivation practices crossed the state and prosecute each segments of the nine successful promoting sustainable farming. The Hatta Farming Festival plays a important relation successful establishing agriculture arsenic an important activity, embedding it arsenic an integral taste worth successful the community. The Festival aligns with the docket of the ‘Dubai Farms’ programme launched by HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai,” Her Excellency added.

Her Excellency highlighted the peculiar value of Hatta arsenic a cardinal constituent of Dubai and the UAE’s cultivation heritage. She emphasised that its ongoing cultivation improvement contributes importantly to the UAE’s broader efforts to beforehand sustainable cultivation to signifier a brighter aboriginal for upcoming generations.

Her Excellency added: "In summation to the Hatta Farming Festival, this twelvemonth volition spot a fig of pioneering projects and initiatives nether the umbrella of the Plant the Emirates National Programme and the National Agriculture Centre. These efforts purpose to supply world-class services and enactment to Emirati farmers and section farms, driving a existent translation successful the sector."

His Excellency Eng. Marwan bin Ghalita, Acting Director General of Dubai Municipality, said the Hatta Farming Festival is being held successful 1 of Dubai’s oldest and astir salient cultivation regions. He highlighted the festival’s cardinal relation wrong the ‘Dubai Farms’ programme, an inaugural dedicated to supporting Emirati farmers and advancing sustainable section agriculture. This effort complements the nationalist ‘Grow UAE’ programme, which seeks to thrust cultivation improvement and found the UAE arsenic a person successful the cultivation sector.

“We purpose to alteration the Hatta Farming Festival into a broad level that empowers section farmers, bolsters the cultivation ecosystem of the emirate, and fosters sustainable development. Our extremity is to assistance Emirati farmers successful achieving self-sufficiency, lend to Dubai’s nutrient information strategy, and heighten prime of beingness wrong the emirate,” helium added.

Dubai Municipality provides extended enactment to Hatta farmers, including cultivation guidance, fertiliser and effect distribution, pest power programmes, and modern cultivation techniques, fostering sustainable farming and accrued productivity.

This year’s festival features a divers programme, including exhibitions of cultivation and livestock products from Hatta farms, acquisition workshops, and dialog sessions with cultivation experts. Visitors tin research modern farming techniques and perceive occurrence stories from section farmers and entrepreneurs, inspiring younger generations to participate the cultivation sector. Competitions specified arsenic nationalist livestock auctions and awards for outstanding farmers volition item the champion cultivation practices, portion selling companies volition stock insights into sustainable farming and marketplace trends focused connected helping amended the worth and prime of section cultivation products.

Interactive sessions volition diagnostic occurrence stories from Hatta’s cultivation history, inspiring dialogues with young workplace owners, and discussions connected entrepreneurship successful modern agriculture to motivate the adjacent procreation of farmers.

Dubai Municipality volition besides supply an cultivation hold platform, offering farmers escaped guidance and information. Visitors tin payment from services provided by the Dubai Smart Mobile Laboratory, which offers investigating for vegetables, fruits, groundwater, and irrigation. A mobile nationalist wellness work volition besides supply veterinary consultations and Brucella antibody detection for participating workplace owners.

Dubai Municipality has played a cardinal relation successful supporting Hatta farmers passim the 2024 cultivation play by providing captious resources and training. Farmers received 24,550 bags of integrated and chemic fertilisers, 2,440 bags of seeds, and 1,350 airy and pheromone traps arsenic portion of pest power initiatives. The municipality conducted implicit 1,250 tract visits, held 12 grooming courses, and organised 4 cultivation forums to amended farming practices. The Municipality besides established the region’s archetypal tourer farm, the Strawberry Model Farm, which serves arsenic a showcase for sustainable farming practices.

These initiatives person empowered Hatta’s farmers to follow modern practices, amended productivity, and enactment Dubai’s Food Security Strategy. By enhancing section cultivation systems and promoting Hatta’s unsocial cultivation identity, the festival underscores Dubai Municipality’s committedness to sustainability and assemblage development.

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