Dubai – Qahwa World
Saudi Arabia is set to significantly boost its domestic coffee industry through the launch of the first subprogram focused on transforming coffee into a major cash crop, under the Sustainable Rural Agricultural Development initiative known as “Saudi Rural.”
The program is being implemented in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), aiming to develop all stages of the coffee value chain in the Kingdom — from production to processing and marketing.
Coffee is one of eight agricultural programs supported by Saudi Rural, which seeks to enhance food security, diversify crops, and improve livelihoods for farmers and small producers in rural areas.
The program targets an increase in annual coffee production from 800 tons to 7,000 tons by year-end — nearly a tenfold rise — while raising the self-sufficiency rate from 0.5% to 4.4%, in line with Saudi Vision 2030 goals.
Majid Al-Buraikan, the official spokesperson for Saudi Rural, highlighted that the program aims to integrate coffee into the agricultural crop structure as a key cash crop and to enhance production diversity. The initiative also seeks to reduce coffee imports, increase value addition through diversified processing and marketing, improve incomes for small farmers, and create job opportunities for youth in production areas and along the coffee value chain.
Previously, Saudi Rural set targets to plant 50,000 coffee seedlings and increase the productivity of existing crops by 30% by the end of 2025.
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