MoCI signed an agreement to increase the strategic stock of commodities with Baladna and a number of Qatari food companies

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) on Thursday signed contracts with 14 companies in Qatar to raise the country’s strategic stock of essential commodities including rice, wheat, frozen red meat, and long-life milk.
The contracts were signed in presence of Minister of Commerce and Industry HE Ali bin Ahmed al Kuwari and Minister of Municipality and Environment HE Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Turki al Subaie. The chairman of the committee for implementing the food security policies of the government and the private sector was also present at the signing event.
Sheikh Jassim bin Jabr bin Hassan al Thani, the Acting Undersecretary for Consumer Affairs and Head of the Strategic Storage Working Group for Food Security at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, signed the contracts with representatives of the 14 companies operating in the food sector of Qatar. The signing took place at the ministry’s headquarters in Lusail.
Several senior officials from Qatar Flour Mills, National Food Industries (Food Co), Qatar National Import and Export Company, Widam Food Company, Baladna Food Industries, Al Mana and Partners, Al Rawabi, International Foundation for Wildlife Research, Al Majid and Jawad (Amjad), Crystal Food Oil Factory, Tazweed for Trading and Catering, Nestle Qatar Trading, Suncons Trading and Contracting, and Bludan Trading Group attended the event.
The initiative comes in line with Qatar’s food security strategy, and the MoCI’s efforts to enhance the partnership between the public and private sectors. It is also aimed at strengthening the strategic inventory system for food, and consumer and catering goods in order to establish Qatar as a country with a significant strategic inventory of goods in the region.

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