Qatar Ministry Municipality Tender

H.E. Eng. Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz bin Turki Al-Subaie Minister of Municipality and Environment visited Thursday morning the Tissue Culture TC Laboratory of the Agricultural Research Department. The visit took place in the presence of Sheikh Dr. Faleh bin Nasser Al Thani Assistant Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries and Mr. Hamad Saket Al-Shammari Director of the Agricultural Research Department and a number of agricultural sector officials.During the visit the Minister was briefed on the progress of work various stages of production and the phases of date palms TC. The Minister was also briefed about the efforts made in the field of date palms propagation in labs which would contribute to bolstering the development process and enhancing the sustainability of resources to achieve the desired development goals.His Excellency also listened to an explanation about the Agricultural Research Department patenting of the nutrient medium for the preparation of tissue palm seedlings under the title An enhanced nutrient media for the formation of somatic embryos in date palms which is underway for official certificate.H.E. Eng. Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz bin Turki Al-Subaii Minister of Municipality and Environment stressed on the importance of the role played by the TC Laboratory in the production of genetically and prolific palm seedlings which will be provided in the coming years. His Excellency commended the labs patenting of one of its outstanding researches in the field of food medium for the preparation of tissue palm seedlings. This confirms the Ministrys excellence in the field of tissue palm propagation.During the visit the Minister listened to an explanation from Mr. Hamad al-Shammari Director of the Department and Ms. Amel Al-Mahmoud Head of the TC Department on how samples for propagation are received how they enter the laboratory and the mechanism for transporting samples between different environments and stages. As a research body the laboratory has achieved impressive results. One of the Qatari specialized partners has been selected to manage the production of the laboratory. They will be provided with the methods and systems reached under the full supervision of the Agricultural Research Department and the TC Department in particular on the production process.It is worth mentioning that the Textile Agriculture Laboratory aims to produce 150000 palm seedlings of distinctive varieties that are desirable to farmers and consumers alike. The Ministry of Municipality and Environment represented by the Department of Agricultural Research has contributed to meeting the needs of the Qatari market and farmers desires to provide tissue palm seedlings in the coming years. Approximately 188 seedlings of special varieties brought from reliable farms for the purpose of conducting micropropagation through plant tissue culture have been introduced in accordance with the protocol adopted by the Ministry in the process of reproduction.