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Importance of farming in Abu Dhabi:
- Agriculture is one of the main sources of income in Abu Dhabi, with main exports being fruits, wheat, dates, and other exotic food crops.
- Apart from agriculture, United Arab Emirates citizens also practice livestock farming and fishery.
- This increases the amount of food production for local consumption, thus boosting food security in the emirates.
Profitability and Possibility of Farming in Abu Dhabi:
- Abu Dhabi has become one of the most popular cities in the entire emirate due to its increased agriculture and farming practice.
- The emirate has shifted to modern farming by producing crops, such as cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbages, green beans, green and red peppers, pumpkins, sweet corn, carrots, and potatoes for local consumption.
- Farmers also grow caviar and dates, which are normally exported.
- Abu Dhabi has been recognized for its aggressiveness in wheat production, with statistics indicating that the emirate produces more wheat per hectare than any other part of the gulf region.
- Innovation in soil taxonomy and the invention of hydrophobic sand.
- Introducing new and efficient irrigation practices, a good example is drip irrigation.
- Water utilization and Sewage treatment services made possible of the retreated or recycled water used in irrigation and agriculture.
- It is an eye-opener to modern society, showing that climatic conditions are not a hindrance to the attainment of food security in the modern world.
Farms to visit in Abu Dhabi
- Mazaara Farm
- Emirates Bio Farm
- Al Rahba Organic Farm 182
- Royal Fisheries Farm
- Emirates Hydroponics Farm
- Al Ajban Chicken Farm
- Gracia Farm
Mazaara farm-Great Family Gateway
A cafe, farm, and shop in one place half an hour from Abu Dhabi town.
- Hidden gem of Abu Dhabi! Want to get away from the City of Abu Dhabi and refresh in nature?
- Then, you can visit the Mazaraa farm! Mazaraa is an organic farm located in Al Bahiya.
- Picking the produce, you desire and having a guided tour for a small fee is an awesome thing that one should not miss.
- Kids can also enjoy it as there is a wide range of animals like donkeys, camels, goats, ducks, chicks, ostrich, and peacocks and they can feed them as well.
- Sample fishing is also allowed. At the end of the tour, popcorn and either juice or water of your choice are provided.
- An aromatic cafeteria and a restaurant are open from morning to evening.
- A shop where their organic produce and other things like good quality olive oil and a variety of honey can be bought.
- Best times to visit are between October and February.
Emirates Bio Farm
- EBF is the largest private organic farm in UAE and is producing natural organic vegetables in Al Ain, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi.
- Visitors can participate in tractor tours, a fun activity for the whole family, inspiring a healthy and active lifestyle as well as an enjoyable bonding experience amid nature itself.
- Emirates Bio Farm has created a fully integrated tourism center to allow visitors to experience farming in a safe and fun environment.
- It includes a farm shop, outside dining/gathering area, experience center, greenhouse restaurant, an Arabian tent overlooking the farm, and open desert dunes.
Al Rahba Organic Farm 182
- Great way for the little ones to learn that vegetables don’t grow in supermarkets.
- Kids love this hands-on outdoor activity of choosing and picking the vegetables which the family can cook together.
- This way of shopping helps reduce the ecological footprint and supports the local agricultural economy.
- Quite an easy way to diversify and increase your daily vegetable consumption.
- How some vegetables grow such as fennel, kale or chilies which is beyond the imagination can be discovered.
- The atmosphere is friendly, and visitors easily socialize sharing their questions and advice about their findings with others.
The outskirts of Abu Dhabi can be discovered, and it is refreshing to be surrounded by greenery. - Visit Al Rabha Farm
Royal Fisheries farm
- It is geographically poised to be one of the world leaders in the fisheries sector.
- It grows and sells high-quality, competitively priced, safe, and delicious fish using innovative technology.
- Propagating aquaculture in the semi-controlled surroundings, Royal Fisheries grade, sort, and price the fish according to size and sell them to merchants.
- Well-organized marketing system transports fish to consumers in every region, be it domestic or international.
- This includes transporting fresh fish to merchants, after handling, sorting, storing, and packaging, while ensuring high taste quality.
Emirates Hydroponics Farm
- Emirates Hydroponics Farms is located between Abu Dhabi and Dubai,
- Using modern water-saving techniques of European technologies and management is its trademark.
- The hydroponics farm was initially opened in 2005 under the trading name City Farm L.L.C.
- And in October of 2008 the farm site was renamed to EMIRATES HYDROPONICS FARMS for Vegetables.
- Emirates Hydroponics Farms continues to ensure high-quality products that can be grown within the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E).
- It offers Hydroponics home kit for a fun and educational experience.
- Home Kits – Emirates Hydroponics Farms (emiratesfarms.com)
- Emirates Hydroponics Farm is available for school, family, and group visits.
For any inquiries:info@emiratesfarms.com
Al Ajban Chicken Farm
If juicy chicken is your favorite menu, then, Al Ajban Chicken Farm is on your Check out Menu.
- Recipes on their official page are from a different customer viewpoint.
- Al Al Ajban Chicken is a poultry farm founded in 1981, in UAE.
- It offers high-quality poultry, hatching eggs, and day-old chicks.
- It is a fully integrated company, that gives us superior poultry, straight from their farms to their customer table.
- Having recently received its ISO 22000 and HACCP certifications, the farm has become the only of its kind in the UAE to boast these two international certifications.
- Offers a wide range of Sharia-slaughtered poultry products, from a fresh whole chicken to frozen parts; the Al Ajban range has a product for every meal.
- Al Ajban supplies other farms with day-old chicks and hatching eggs, which are incubated and hatched in the sanitized environment of their hatcheries.
[icon name = location-arrow] Address: AL AJBAN CHICKEN, Al Ajban, P.O. Box: 108767, Abu Dhabi – UAE
[icon name=icon-phone] +971 2 564 3377
[icon name=icon-globe] Website:sales.alajban@alajbanchicken.ae
Gracia Farm
First Emirates hydroponic farm in the Middle East region
- Gracia Group is an innovative model of future farming, created by an Emirati entrepreneur Hamed Al Hamed.
- Agriculture is only production as said in the past, but an innovative and interesting sector too nowadays.
- Gracia Farms Hydroponics is the first Emirates hydroponic farm in the Middle East region that uses New Growing System (NGS) to produce the best quality products and achieve food security.
- Many other factors play important roles in impacting the agricultural sector like the latest technologies and modern irrigation facilities.
- Gracia Group is a holding of 12 companies interconnected to achieve agricultural sustainability in the world.
- It is the revolutionary model of future farming.
- It targets education, training, healing, greenhouses construction, tourism, trading, technology, production, food, and events.
- Gracia farms represents a platform that unites local farmers in the UAE to support them as a vision.
- They help the local farmers with their produce by categorizing their farms, giving them a production plan, and marketing their produce.
- Visit Gracia farm.
[icon name=location-arrow] Location: Al Bahia, Abu Dhabi. UAE
[icon name=icon-phone] Contact: +971 52 400 7407
[icon name=icon-globe] Website:Info@graciagroup.ae
