SUHAR: Efficiency indicators for 2025 affirm steady progress throughout varied productive sectors in Al Batinah North Governorate, supported by a bundle of strategic tasks, funding alternatives, infrastructure, and logistical companies that contribute to elevating manufacturing effectivity, growing meals industries and rising exports.
Eng Nasser bin Ali al Marshoodi, Director Common of the Directorate Common of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Assets in Al Batinah North Governorate, stated that the governorate possesses a broad agricultural manufacturing base, because the cultivated space by the tip of 2025 reached roughly 99,676 feddans, in comparison with 94,242 feddans within the earlier yr, reaching a progress of 4.35 per cent, alongside 61 agricultural nurseries and two agricultural analysis stations.
He added that vegetable manufacturing reached almost 860,000 tonnes, fruit manufacturing exceeded 87,000 tonnes, along with greater than 225,000 tonnes of fodder crops.
He defined that the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Assets (MoAFWR) continued to implement agricultural help programmes that contributed to elevating productiveness and enhancing crop high quality by increasing the cultivation of improved Omani wheat varieties and establishing mannequin fields for mango, lemon, guava, fig, and sidr crops, amongst others. This was alongside implementing intensive preventive programmes that contributed to lowering pink palm weevil infestations by 36.71 per cent, and executing aerial spraying programmes to fight Dubas bugs for the autumn and spring generations, masking 48 villages over an space exceeding 818 feddans.
He identified that the livestock sector represents a key pillar within the governorate’s manufacturing system, as the whole variety of livestock reached roughly 680,000 head, with an annual manufacturing reaching 500,000 litres of milk and 4 million poultry, supported by an built-in community of veterinary companies together with authorities and personal clinics, laboratories, and veterinary pharmacies, along with grazing websites and a cellular clinic.
He indicated that vaccinating greater than 841,000 animals throughout 2025 contributed to reducing illness charges, explaining that the governorate consists of 13,218 fishermen, 5,431 fishing boats, 6 ports, and eight fish markets, alongside 214 fish advertising shops and 31 funding tasks, enhancing the worth chain for the fisheries sector.
Vegetable manufacturing reached almost 860,000 tonnes, fruit manufacturing exceeded 87,000 tonnes, along with greater than 225,000 tonnes of fodder crops. — ONA
He affirmed that agricultural improvement within the governorate depends on a complicated water infrastructure that features 5 recharge and safety dams, along with 17 group partnership dams, cloud seeding stations, a large community of hydrometric monitoring stations, groundwater monitoring wells, in addition to 993 aflaj (conventional irrigation channels), whereas implementation of recent water useful resource tasks continues.
He said that the governorate possesses an built-in meals security management system comprising 6 quarantine and meals security places of work, 183 meals institutions, 71 meals warehouses, 27 automated bakeries, 14 water bottling crops, and 13 ice factories, along with testing laboratories, thereby enhancing product high quality and the protection of meals imports.
He famous that fifty alternatives had been provided inside meals safety tasks throughout 2025 through the “Tatweer” platform with an funding worth of RO 307 million throughout an space of 1,527 feddans, anticipated to offer roughly 200 job alternatives, stressing that these tasks cowl varied plant, animal, fisheries, and water sectors.
He defined that Saham Agricultural Metropolis represents one of the crucial outstanding future tasks, established over an space of 92.3 sq. kilometres, together with 22 sq. kilometres of agricultural space, making an allowance for integration between agricultural, residential, and repair actions, thereby enhancing the mannequin of built-in agricultural cities and supporting the achievement of Oman Imaginative and prescient 2040 targets.
Al Marshoodi highlighted the variety of agricultural investments within the governorate, the place banana cultivation tasks emerged on an space of 150.3 feddans with an funding worth of RO 800,000 and a manufacturing capability reaching 1,270 tonnes yearly; onion tasks over an space of 374 feddans with a manufacturing capability of two,888 tonnes; alongside onion and okra manufacturing tasks throughout 100 feddans valued at RO 240,000; along with a lemon and mango venture masking 50 feddans valued at RO 250,000; a fig venture spanning 16.6 feddans with a manufacturing capability of 31 tonnes; and potato tasks over 510 feddans with a manufacturing capability of 813 tonnes.
He added that the governorate is witnessing qualitative investments in meals industries, most notably the sugar refining venture represented by Oman Sugar Refinery plant, which is the primary built-in megaproject of-its-kind within the Sultanate of Oman, constructed at Sohar Port and Freezone with an funding of RO 150 million throughout an space of 20 hectares, that includes a manufacturing capability of as much as 1 million tonnes of refined sugar yearly and a storage capability of 500,000 tonnes of uncooked sugar and 70,000 tonnes of refined sugar, making it one of many largest industrial tasks supporting meals safety within the Sultanate of Oman.
He additionally defined that Growth Financial institution contributed to funding 319 tasks within the governorate with a price exceeding RO 7.86 million, masking agricultural, livestock, fisheries, water, and meals trade sectors, thereby enhancing the expansion of small and medium investments within the meals sector.
He identified that the fodder cultivation venture utilizing handled water within the Wilayat of Saham is taken into account a mannequin for sustainable funding, as it’s established over an space of 35 feddans expandable to 103 feddans, valued at RO 350,000 with an annual manufacturing capability of 1,200 tonnes and an Omanisation charge reaching 96 per cent. In the meantime, the fodder cultivation and livestock breeding venture within the Wilayat of Al Suwaiq, established on an space of 100 feddans valued at RO 1.5 million with a manufacturing capability of 1,100 tonnes, contributes to supporting pink meat manufacturing and enhancing native market stability.
Al Marshoodi emphasised the function of the built-in logistics metropolis as a elementary pillar in supporting the expansion of agricultural exports by facilitating cargo clearance procedures and elevating service effectivity by specialised inspection platforms, laboratories, and superior round the clock storage amenities, contributing to accelerating export motion and making certain product security and high quality.
He defined that plant exports exceeded 81,000 tonnes throughout 2025, in comparison with 76,000 tonnes within the earlier yr, reaching a progress charge of seven.89 per cent and surpassing the annual goal of 6 per cent, amid town’s rising function in enhancing the export capability of Omani merchandise.
He famous the execution of an Omani sesame and fava bean cultivation venture within the Wilayat of Al Suwaiq over a complete space of three feddans — one feddan for sesame and two feddans for fava beans — with a productiveness reaching roughly 500 kilograms per feddan yearly, with the opportunity of harvesting twice a yr. He said that the venture has reached the advertising stage and the product is being launched to native markets.
In the identical context, he defined that the sugarcane cultivation venture within the governorate, positioned within the Wilayat of Saham over an space of 30 feddans with a productiveness reaching 50 tonnes per feddan, has entered the 100 per cent advertising section, with plans to boost added worth by processing the product, along with working solely on photo voltaic power.
He added that a number of partnership agreements had been signed, together with a memorandum of understanding with Oman Sugar Refinery Firm to buy uncooked sugar, and one other with the Oman Agriculture Growth Firm to utilise sugarcane waste, supporting the combination of manufacturing chains and enhancing sustainability within the agricultural sector.
Eng Nasser bin Ali al Marshoodi defined that providing 42 funding alternatives throughout 2026 throughout an space exceeding 600 feddans comes as a part of increasing the funding base and attracting qualitative tasks that contribute to rising native manufacturing, diversifying agricultural actions, and supporting worth chains, thereby reinforcing Al Batinah North Governorate’s standing as an built-in nationwide hub for meals manufacturing within the Sultanate of Oman. — ONA
