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ARASCO participated in Riyadh Environmental Camp
ARASCO has recently participated in the
Riyadh Environmental Camp, organized
by the General Directorate of Agriculture
Affairs in Riyadh at Al Khafas South
Park under the auspices of the Ministry
of Environment, Water and Agriculture.
Slogan of the camp was ,, My environment
is my responsibility ,, . The camp aims
to plant 4 million trees during the next
three years until the year of 2020. The
Director General of the Department of
Agriculture Affairs in Riyadh, Dr. Majid Al-
Faraj praised ARASCO role in supporting
environmental and awareness programs
that highly benefits the community.
He said that (Plant a tree) Camp is an
important occasion for children and
families to recognize the importance of
the tree and its contribution towards
preserving the environment in general.
He also pointed out that a child can
through the experience of the camp,
select one of the templates in his name
and plant a seed and to water it, so that
he can display it within the wing of the
Ministry. This can be done after transfer
all the plantations to the Ministry’s
nursery and distributed to the target
areas in the map of the development of
vegetation cover in the region. The event
was attended by a number of government
agencies, as well as private institutions
and companies, environmental
cooperatives associations and some
green links. The event was attended
by a group of experts, specialists and
environmentalists, along with planting
and cleaning campaigns in Al-Rawda
and neighboring districts, as well as
field awareness campaigns.
US Bongi signs a Memorandum of Understanding with ARASCO
to enter the grain market in the Kingdom
A familiar source (Reuters) declared
that the US Bongi agricultural goods
trading company, is seeking a share of the
country , s grain mills deal after the Saudi
General Organization for Cereal announced
the privatization of this sector recently.
Bongi is the world , s second largest
company that is very interested in entering
the wheat and barley milling market in
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In the same
context, Bongi has signed a Memorandum
of Understanding with ARASCO for the
purpose of entering the grain trading
market in the Kingdom, where a delegation
of the company accompanied by the high
profile officials of ARASCO visited the
Grain Silos at Riyadh, Dammam, Al Kharj
and Medina. Previously, an agreement was
signed last March between the American
Archer Daniels Midland for agriculture and
the Saudi Almarai Co. in this regard.
The Saudi Grain Corporation - the world , s
largest buyer of wheat and barley - is
currently prepared to sell the activities of
four of its subsidiaries while retaining other
entities as part of its plan to privatize this
vital sector in the Kingdom.
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