Katara Cultural Village hosts 5th Mahaseel festival
- 3 years ago
The popular festival aimed at supporting and promoting the agricultural and livestock sectors in Qatar has been a massive hit in the past along with nurseries displaying beautiful flowers: roses, lilies, orchids, and ornamental plants.
The Katara Cultural Village is ready to welcome the fifth Mahaseel Festival that celebrates agriculture and locally grown farm produce by letting local farmers sell directly to people.
The Mahaseel Festival runs until January 2, 2021, from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm and after that will run every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday until March 31, 2021.
The Mahaseel (Harvest in Arabic) Festival is a way to honor and support the agricultural sector and the livestock, the food, farms and farmers offering them the best business opportunities. Bringing up interactive activities, exhibition and other regional programs this is an initiative to engage and encourage both the farmers and the locals. Fostering the use of local goods and products, this is a festival to acknowledge the role of farms in expanding the economy of the country.
The popular festival, aimed at supporting and promoting the agricultural and livestock sectors in Qatar has been a massive hit in the past and what is best about the festival is that one can purchase the exhibited stock at affordable prices.
The market features 28 Qatari farms selling various types of fresh fruits and vegetables and local companies offering food products related to livestock, in addition to natural honey and the best varieties of local dates produced by Qatari farms. Additionally, there are also eight stands of nurseries displaying beautiful flowers: roses, lilies, orchids, and ornamental plants.
Qatari farms participating in the fifth edition of the festival display a distinguished bouquet of its finest agricultural products from fresh vegetables and are subject to supervision by the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) to ensure that they are free of chemical fertilizers. These initiatives support the efforts made in achieving food security and self-sufficiency and strengthening the national economy’s independence.
Visitors can reach Mahaseel Festival by using Doha Metro. Both Al Qasser and Katara station on the Red Line can be used to reach the festival and upon arrival must present their Ehteraz App’s ‘Green’ health code at the entrance. Entry is free of charge.
It was in 2016 when the fest started, and since then the Katara Cultural village marked the area as a space to support the Qatari agricultural sector. Since then, the Mahaseel Festival Qatar is an excellent opportunity for local farms to promote and sell their stocks directly to the general public and introduce them with the regional or hybrid varieties of agricultural products, the food and vegetables that are grown in Qatar.
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