Monday, 25 January 2016
Saudi Arabia wastes nearly 50 billion riyals ($13.3 billion) of food per year, new data has revealed.
Alriyadh newspaper yesterday reported the Saudi Minister of Agriculture, Abdulrahman Al-Fadhli, saying Saudis waste a staggering 49.833 billion riyals of food per year, equivalent to 30 per cent of the local agricultural output and food imports.
Al-Fadhli explained that “Saudis waste nearly 250 kilograms of food per year, the highest in the world.”
He presented a report during a workshop in Riyadh which explained that there are 795 million hungry people around the world, noting that saving “only a quarter of the food wasted annually can provide food for 870 million people, and help eradicate hunger in the world.”
He stressed on the need to enact laws that limit food waste and appealed to the concerned authorities to punish those who deliberately waste food.
Source: Middle East Monitor.
Link: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/23532-official-data-saudi-wastes-133bn-of-food-each-year.
Saudi Arabia wastes nearly 50 billion riyals ($13.3 billion) of food per year, new data has revealed.
Alriyadh newspaper yesterday reported the Saudi Minister of Agriculture, Abdulrahman Al-Fadhli, saying Saudis waste a staggering 49.833 billion riyals of food per year, equivalent to 30 per cent of the local agricultural output and food imports.
Al-Fadhli explained that “Saudis waste nearly 250 kilograms of food per year, the highest in the world.”
He presented a report during a workshop in Riyadh which explained that there are 795 million hungry people around the world, noting that saving “only a quarter of the food wasted annually can provide food for 870 million people, and help eradicate hunger in the world.”
He stressed on the need to enact laws that limit food waste and appealed to the concerned authorities to punish those who deliberately waste food.
Source: Middle East Monitor.
Link: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/23532-official-data-saudi-wastes-133bn-of-food-each-year.
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