Abu Dhabi Ports―the master developer, operator and manager of ports and industrial zones in the Emirate – and Al Dahra Agriculture LLC, a leading international agribusiness company, have celebrated the ground breaking of their rice milling, storage and distribution plant’s ‘silos’ at Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad).
The building structure of the overall Al Dahra Kohinoor facility is well underway and has entered the next phase of construction – that related to the structures for rice grain storage or silos.
This AED 140 million facility, currently the first of its kind and set to be the largest rice mill factory in the Gulf region, will contribute to the realisation of UAE long-term food security vision.
Al Dahra Kohinoor LLC, a joint venture of Al Dahra Holding of Abu Dhabi and Kohinoor Foods of India, will produce up to 80,000 (eighty thousand) metric tonnes of rice per annum. The facility will be handling the full production cycle from milling, storing, packing and distributing the rice within the UAE and exporting to foreign markets via Khalifa Port.
Al Dahra Kohinoor facility will not only have the abilities to produce and store 50,000 metric tonnes of strategic rice reserve; fulfilling the company’s commitments to the UAE Food Security Centre, but also it will contribute to the enhancement of rice milling expertise and capabilities in Abu Dhabi, by creating 90 jobs in the first phase.