Dossier
Batinah region
Coverage of Batinah region in the Nexus archive.
- Oman pours money into food security with $4.2B agriculture development
Oman is investing $4.2 billion in an agriculture development project in the Batinah region to enhance food security and reduce reliance on imports, aiming to produce 80% of its food by 2040. The government has established cloud seeding stations and allocated over 800 million rials to expand arable land and improve rainfall by 14%.