How much food do you waste?

Oman loves to eat. This is a fact. But today, we’re not talking about obesity or the scary and divisive genetically modified food. We’re going to stick to how Oman residents love their food. Yesterday morning was the launching of the Food and Hospitality Oman — a gathering of over 400 companies and brands under one roof not only from the Sultanate but also the world — 18 countries to be exact.

A bunch of people are there and gush, do they know how to munch. No one can say no to a good ‘free taste’.

Held at the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre, this year’s FHO banked on the success of the event held the year before. What is interesting though is that they doubled the fun and excitement by sticking to what worked in the past and improved on them so people will be enticed to come back.

And if the grand launching is to be the basis, it seemed like people and investors are coming in droves.

Of the many companies exhibiting their products at the event, two actually caught my eyes.

One was the Aquaculture Development Company (ADC) and its partner Blue Waters and the other, the MC Delicious Group.

The reason why I got interested in ADC is because they are doing sustainable fish farming. From the story that I gathered, they currently have sea cages located a few kilometres off the port of Qurayat. These cages, for now, are filled with seabream and twice every week, they harvest fishes which are not only distributed in Oman but elsewhere as well.

The idea of sea cages is not something that you encounter every day. There is so much that I’d want to know and how the process is sustainable and it was through a brief conversation that I decided it was worthy of a more detailed feature in the future.