Saudi Arabia is known for its rich coffee heritage, and it has come as a piece of great news as the region will have its own coffee city in the Baha region’s Mashuqa and Al-Qara governorates.

The Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture has signed an agreement to establish a coffee development city in Baha which will be built in an area totalling 1,600,000 square meters and will have the operational capacity to provide 1,000 job opportunities and plant 300,000 coffee trees.

The Ministry has agreed with the Agricultural Society in Baljurashi to establish the city, which will include several essential facilities, like an integrated coffee factory for sorting, processing, roasting, and packaging among others.

To make it better, it will also have a training centre at the site, along with a business centre and a permanent exhibition. The city will also have an area designated for housing and hospitality, as the ministry aims to make the city a tourist destination.

Fahd Al-Zahrani, the director of the ministry’s branch in Baha, shared that, through the initiation, the ministry is looking forward to supporting coffee cultivation projects through many programs and initiatives, including ones to rehabilitate agricultural terraces and rainwater reservations, which contributed to the recovery of 114 coffee farms in the Baha region.

The project aims to support the local farmers in the region. Over 17,000 seedlings have been distributed to farmers for free. The Sustainable Agricultural Rural Development Program provides material like coffee to support eight sectors and to improve rural agriculture, raise living standards for farmers, and increase efficiency and productivity.