Dubai’s Giga Farm Project to Boost Food Security and Agricultural GDP

Food is a basic necessity for any economy and society. With over 1% of the UAE’s food needs set to be locally produced from the new giga farm

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The giga farm can produce over 2 billion crops annually, meeting critical caloric and nutritional demands locally.

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Reliable domestic production supports stable inflation, a necessary condition for long-term economic growth.

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Agriculture accounts for a low 0.5% of UAE GDP currently due to sparse crop lands and reliance on imports.

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Agriculture accounts for a low 0.5% of UAE GDP currently due to sparse crop lands and reliance on imports.

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This represents substantial new GDP contribution from the agriculture sector.

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