(Dubai) – Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, visited the Dubai municipality’s nursery and floriculture production site in Warsan, which extends on a land area of more than 36 hectares.
He was accompanied by Director-General of Dubai Municipality, Hussain Lootah, Director-General of the Department of Protocol in Dubai, Khalifa Saeed Suleiman, and a number of municipal officials.
The production capacity of the nursery is 200 million plants per year.
Lootah said the Warsan nursery can provide seasonal and sustainable flower seedlings through a large nursery production capacity that amounts to 70 million seedlings in one cycle per year.
Sheikh Mohammed appreciated the unique project of its kind in the region, and praised the municipal efforts to make the city of Dubai an icon of beauty and greenery.
He expressed his satisfaction about the advanced techniques used in local agriculture to adorn the streets and districts of Dubai with various varieties of trees and ornamental plants.
(Courtesy WAM)
