As a part of ongoing nationwide efforts to advertise native agricultural produce and improve Kuwait’s meals safety, the Wafir Firm Public sale within the Sulaibiya space — recognized regionally as Al-Fardah Market — continues to play a significant position as one of many nation’s largest and most energetic facilities for supplying contemporary greens and fruits to the native market.
The joint committee fashioned to watch the implementation of Ministerial Decision No. 31 of 2025, which helps the advertising of native agricultural produce via the cooperative societies stated, the public sale’s operations and product buying and selling mechanisms is being performed systematically, reviews Al-Jarida day by day.
The top of the committee, Cooperative Societies Supervisor Youssef Al-Jafour, revealed that the Wafir Public sale handles on a median of 180,000 cartons of greens day by day, roughly about 5.4 million cartons month-to-month.
Of this, the cooperative societies account for roughly two million cartons, following the enforcement of the ministerial determination to advertise native agricultural produce via the cooperatives.
Al-Jafour famous that cooperatives’ dedication to day by day purchases from the public sale has reached 39%, a big enchancment in comparison with earlier years, when the speed didn’t exceed 25%.
He defined that the committee constantly updates a round of obtainable merchandise at gross sales shops based mostly on manufacturing ranges, distributing it to all cooperatives.
To make sure integrity and transparency, the committee verifies precise buy invoices from cooperatives and compares them with gross sales ratios throughout branches and markets. The Ministry of Commerce additionally screens worth fluctuations to forestall unjustified will increase.
Al-Jafour affirmed that strict and steady oversight has led to a pointy decline in violations and a marked improve in cooperatives’ compliance with the choice. He warned that associations failing to stick to buying laws face graduated authorized measures—beginning with warnings, adopted by judicial seizure, and finally the suspension of financial institution accreditation or dissolution of their boards in circumstances of persistent noncompliance.
He added that a number of cooperatives have already confronted judicial actions for violating the choice. The ministry, via the committee, intervenes straight when it identifies weak buying efficiency. Al-Jafour emphasised that the cooperative sector is exploring new mechanisms to boost the group of native produce purchases and grant precedence entry to Kuwaiti farmers inside cooperative markets.
He additionally urged cooperative representatives to attend auctions till their conclusion to safe high-quality native merchandise at honest cooperative costs.
For his half, Mahmoud Ramadan, Director of the First Wafir Public sale, highlighted the public sale’s pivotal position in selling nationwide agricultural output year-round by guaranteeing the regular movement of leafy and fruit crops to markets at honest and aggressive costs.
He acknowledged that roughly 70% of Kuwait’s complete native agricultural manufacturing is bought via the Wafir Public sale, which serves as a key middleman between farm house owners and buying entities, together with cooperative societies and parallel markets.
Ramadan affirmed that this method helps each farmers and shoppers, contributing to a sustainable agricultural financial system and a stronger nationwide meals safety community.