{"id":63939,"date":"2026-11-04T14:39:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T14:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/63939\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T07:44:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T07:44:46","slug":"4-%d8%a7%d8%aa%d9%81%d8%a7%d9%82%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%ab%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%b9%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%b2-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/63939\/","title":{"rendered":"Investment agreements to boost fisheries industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sultanate of Oman&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mafwr.gov.om\/public\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources<\/a> has signed four investment agreements worth a total of OMR 13.4 million to develop commercial and coastal fishing, fish processing and canning, and fishing net recycling.<\/p>\n<p>The agreements aim to attract investment, increase the value of fishery products, strengthen food security and support economic diversification and sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>The agreements were signed on behalf of the Ministry by Engineer Yaqoub Al Busaidi, Undersecretary for Fisheries.<\/p>\n<p>The first agreement, worth OMR 5.4 million, covers an integrated commercial fishing and fish canning project in the Fisheries Industries Zone in Duqm, Al Wusta Governorate.<\/p>\n<p>The second agreement involves establishing a tuna and sardine canning factory in Duqm, with an investment of OMR 5.73 million.<\/p>\n<p>The third agreement, valued at OMR 2 million, provides for a fish processing and canning facility in Al Musannah, South Al Batinah Governorate.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth agreement, worth OMR 300,000, focuses on recycling used fishing nets in Al Wusta Governorate, supporting the circular economy and environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>The agreements reflect the Ministry&#8217;s commitment to strengthening private sector partnerships, expanding value added fisheries industries and enhancing the competitiveness of Omani fishery products in local and international markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agreements aim to attract investment and increase the value of fishery products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":63938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[1019,1025],"class_list":["post-63939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trade-news","tag-agriculture-and-fisheries","tag-agriculture-and-fisheries-en"],"acf":{"fm_post_excerpt_app":"The agreements aim to increase the value of fishery products."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63939"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63977,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63939\/revisions\/63977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}