Oman Flour Mills procures locally grown wheat

MUSCAT: Oman Flour Mills (OFM) says it is continuing to procure the wheat harvests of Omani farmers as part of its ‘Wealth Is In Our Farms’ initiative aimed at promoting food security, while enabling local farmers to enter the domestic food market. Flour produced from the national wheat crop is now available in the local market, the publicly traded firm said in a press statement. Khalaa Fail Mattar Jaddad, a wheat farmer who owns a farm in the Nejd area of Thamrait Wilayat, said: “I cultivated about 55 acres of wheat using local species distributed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resource. Thanks to the support we received from the Ministry, we harvested about 64 tonnes of wheat.” Qais bin Abdulrahman al Abri, who grows wheat in the Wilayat of Bahla said: “Wheat is a crop that generates a rewarding income when it is cultivated in proper conditions. We have produced 35 tons of wheat by cultivating 35 acres of farmland this season.”