Shraideh talks of structural plan of sites to enhance food security
KUWAIT CITY, Aug 2: The Acting Director General of the Kuwait Municipality, Eng Nadia Al-Shraideh spoke of the structural plan of sites in the northern region to enhance food security in the country, reports Al-Qabas daily.
Al-Shraideh said, in a letter she addressed to the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers that the proposals and visions submitted by the Public Authority for Industry regarding securing, strengthening and developing the food and water security system in the country, with regard to the municipality’s future vision, the structural plan has studied sites in the northern region, including the Al-Buhith area, which is strategically located at an intersection between Al-Subbiya, Abdali Farms and the Iraqi border, to provide opportunities for sustainable means, agriculture and food production, which are integrated with research, industry, innovation and technology.
She added that the Al-Buhith area aims to serve as a means to enhance food security for Kuwait, and it is concentrated in the southern side of the region, sites for food production, reserves, farming sites, and many food storage sites.
Al-Shraideh indicated that according to the proposals and visions of the Public Authority for Industry, with regard to increasing the storage capacity of food and pharmaceutical industries and their industries in the country, “we suggest adding the activity of storage and food and pharmaceutical
manufacturing to some affiliated sites designated for the benefit of the Public Authority for Industry, and which are close to urban areas because they are linked to the surrounding road network served in these areas and according to geographical distribution.”
Al-Shraideh stressed the application of the requirements of the concerned government agencies (Kuwait Municipality, the Public Fire Force, the Environment Public Authority, the Ministry of Electricity and Water, the Public Food Authority, the Ministry of Health), and that the sites proposed to add the activity should not be heavy industries sites.