His highness Sheikh Hamadan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Deputy Governor of Dubai and Minister of Finance in the UAE and the member in AAAID’s Shareholders Board, has received the Delegation of AAAID’S Board of Directors which headed by HE Ali BIN saeed Alsharhan President of AAAID in his Palace in Zubail – Dubai, in the presence of his highness Ubaid Hamied Altayier the Emirates Finance State Minister , HE Khalid Albustani the Acting General manager of the Federal Customs Corporation , HE Barrak Mubarak Almubaraki Representative of Kuwait State , HE Altayeib Abuganaya Representative of the Republic of Sudan ,HE Nagah Kariem Abid Representative of the Republic of Iraq , HE Mubarak Suliman Almunziri Rep of Sultanate of Oman , HE Abdulmagid Amghar Rep of the Republic of Algeria , and also in the presence of Mr. Alarabi Alhamdi AAAID ‘S consultant for economical affairs , Engineer Omer Alfakeh Marzoug General Mnager of Arab Sudanese Company for Agriculture in Blue Nile –Agadi (one of AAAID’S affiliated companies ) in addition to high officials from the Ministry of Finance in the Emirates.

In the beginning of the meeting HE Ali Bin Saeed Alsharhan has extended his thanks and gratitude to his highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoun for the ongoing efforts by the Government of Emirates State to AAAID by hosting AAAID’s regional office and some of its affiliated companies in addition to the logistic support.
And he discussed AAAID’S activities in the UAE state and the other Arab states , reviewing the affiliated companies and their programs ,activities and achievements beside the developmental efforts that AAAID is providing to achieve Arab food security .
His highness has also attend the presentation by engineer .Omer Marzoug , general manager of Agadi who reviewed the company activity which established as joint venture between AAAID and the Government of Sudan in 1983 ( Agadi project , as unique in the Arab world in terms of size ) to produce field crops such as cotton ,sorghum ,maize, sun flower ,sesame and millet as strategic food crops which cultivated on an area of 220 000 acres (more than 90 000 hectare ).
The presentation include the efforts made to introduce zero tillage agriculture since the year 2000 and the good results which led to increase the crops productivity to 4 times more compared to the traditional system .
And from his side his highness Sheikh Hamadan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum has praised the AAAID’s efforts and its contributions in enhancing Arab food security , and he has directed to give the consideration to the projects that producing strategic crops for the Arab world such as grains , particularly wheat and rice ,taking in consideration the privacy of every country , stressing AAAID adoption for comprehensive strategy and the awareness of the new regional and international developments.