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Dubai Municipality unveils Dubai’s Best

Homegrown Produce Competition

19/03/2024

-The competition will award AED 100,000 in total, which will be distributed to three winners

-The first-place winner of the competition will also receive the ‘Dubai’s Best Homegrown

Produce Medal’
-Registration for the competition will be open for one month and winners will be announced in

May 2024

Dubai, UAE, March 18, 2024,

Dubai Municipality announced the ‘Dubai’s Best Homegrown Produce Competition’, one of
the programs under Dubai Farms, which seeks to support citizen farmers who are productive

agricultural entrepreneurs and to promote local agriculture for increased local production, and

enhanced food security in the Emirate of Dubai. The move comes in line with the objectives of

Dubai Social Agenda 33, aimed at empowering Dubai citizens and increasing their

productivity and economic contribution, thereby achieving self-sufficiency and physical, family,

and social independence.

The competition aims to promote a culture of productive agriculture, adopt the concept of

environmental sustainability, and achieve self-sufficiency of the family from agricultural

products and crops produced in their homes as they will be at the level of the emirate's

neighborhoods, as well as raise community awareness on the latest methods and techniques

in agriculture.
The prizes will amount to AED 100,000, which will be awarded to the first three centers

divided into AED 50,000 for the first winner, AED 30,000 for the second, and AED 20,000 for

the third. In addition, a ‘Medal of Dubai’s Best Homegrown Produce, will be placed by Dubai

Municipal Leaders at the front of the winning garden. The winners of the competition will be

announced in May 2024.

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