THURSDAY APRIL 18, 2019 SHA’BAN 13, 1440 VOL.12 NO. 4608 QR 2 PARTLY CLOUDY Fajr: 3:50 am Dhuhr: 11:34 am HIGH : 36°C Asr: 3:02 pm Maghrib: 5:58 pm LOW : 25°C Isha: 7:28 pm MAIN BRANCH LULU HYPER SANAYYA ALKHOR Business 12 Sports 16 Doha D-Ring Road Street-17 M & J Building MATAR QADEEM MANSOURA ABU HAMOUR BIN OMRAN Commercial Bank’s Q1 net FIBA 3x3 World Tour Near Ahli Bank Al Meera Petrol Station Al Meera profit up 6% to QR431 mn begins at Katara today alzamanexchange www.alzamanexchange.com 44441448 Qatar, Jordan sign defence cooperation pacts JORDAN KING MEETS ATTIYAH QNA forces Brigadier General Moham- AMMAN med Ali al Manaseer. An official reception ceremony THE Qatari Armed Forces and was held for Attiyah, which was at- the Jordanian Armed Forces on tended by Chairman of the Joint Wednesday signed a number of joint Chiefs of Staff, General Inspector cooperation agreements. of the Armed Forces Major General The agreements were signed Ghazi Awda al Muqaibel, Command- as Deputy Prime Minister and er of Royal Jordanian Air Force Ma- Minister of State for Defense Af- jor General (Pilot) Yousef Ahmed al fairs HE Dr Khalid bin Mohammed Hunaiti, Director General of Royal al Attiyah met with Chairman of Medical Services Saad Jaber, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Jor- a number of ranking officers at the danian Armed Forces Lieuten- Jordanian Armed Forces. ant General Mahmoud Freihat on The meeting was attended on the Wednesday. Qatari side by head of the authority of The agreements aim to increase colleges and institutes Major General HM King Abdullah II of Jordan, the Supreme Commander of the Jorda- cooperation between the two armed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defense Affairs HE Dr Khalid bin Hamad bin Ahmed al Nuaimi, Com- nian Armed Forces, met Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State forces and raise their levels in ad- Mohammed al Attiyah witnesses the signing of an agreement between Qatari Armed mander of the Joint Special Forces for Defense Affairs HE Dr Khalid bin Mohammed al Attiyah at the Al ministrative, technical, and organi- Forces and the Jordanian Armed Forces in Amman on Wednesday. Major General Hamad bin Abdullah Husseiniya Palace on Wednesday. Attiyah conveyed the greetings of the sational areas. al Fetais al Marri, Military Attache Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani to HM King Abdullah II. HM The agreements were signed by and Chief Executive of Barrer Hold- rector of planning and organisation of Qatar to Jordan Brigadier Gen- the King entrusted Attiyah with his greetings to the Amir. The meeting president of the international mili- ing Youssef Abdulrahman al Khu- Brigadier General Abdullah Hassan eral Shafi Mohammed al Shafi, and dealt with bilateral relations and the means to enhance them. (QNA) tary cooperation authority Brigadier laifi on the Qatari side. From the al Hunaiti, and director of supply in a number of ranking officers of the General Abdulaziz Saleh al Sulaiti Jordanian side, it was signed by di- the general command of the armed QAF. PAGE 20 Cabinet okays draft Qatar grants €250,000 decision on treatment Construction of Qatar’s first to support Arab world and education of PR card holders and football exhibition THE Cabinet has approved a draft decision of the Council cable-stayed bridge begins of Ministers on the conditions and restrictions on the hold- ers of the Permanent Resi- the free flow cable-stayed bridge. dency (PR) card on treatment 1,200-metre-long With the completion, the sig- and education in government nalised intersection will consist of institutions. According to a bridge will help 6 lanes in each direction, including recent law, expatriates in two right turns to the left and one Qatar could obtain perma- ease traffic flow for U-turn. nent residency card under The intersection will help the certain rules and conditions. TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK traffic in all directions to con- The Cabinet meeting was DOHA nect Sabah Al-Ahmad Corridor chaired by Prime Minister and to Haloul Street and Salwa Road. Minister of Interior HE Sheikh THE Public Works Authority (Ash- It will serve Bu Hamour and Al Abdullah bin Nasser bin ghal) has started the construction Mamoura and many vital facili- Khalifa al Thani. of the first cable-stayed bridge in ties around the Wholesale Mar- QATAR provided financial support worth Qatar and the conversion of Haloul ket. €250,000 to the Arab World Institute for Roundabout into a two-level inter- Engineer Abdullah al Naiemi Arab world and football exhibition which change on Sabah Al-Ahmad Corri- said Ashghal has already started kicked off on Tuesday in Paris. The exhibi- dor project. construction of the first cable- tion will run until July 21. The 1,200-metre-long bridge stayed bridge in Qatar, which Ambassador of Qatar to France HE Ali extends up to Haloul Roundabout was designed in a unique way to bin Jassem al Thani handed over Qatar’s through Faleh Bin Nasser intersec- provide a free traffic flow with- support for the exhibition to President of the tion on Salwa Road to provide free out the need to pass through institute Jack Lang. The president thanked flow of traffic between Hamad In- roundabouts or traffic signals, Qatar for its support and for keeping up with ternational Airport and the areas especially as the bridge will pass the institute’s events, which creates a space Sudan’s ousted of Bu Hamour, Mesaimeer and Al Due to the length of the bridge, highest point of the bridge to 30 over Haloul and Faleh Bin Nasser for interaction between Arab and French Waab. the construction work will require metres high. intersections on Salwa Road. It cultures. The ambassador had participated president Bashir The new bridge will have four the use of 854 precast concrete Haloul Roundabout will be will significantly ease the traffic in the opening of the exhibition, which was moved to prison as lanes in each direction to accom- pieces, each weighing about 200 revamped into a two-level inter- congestion. attended by French Minister of Foreign Af- protesters rally (P 10 ) modate more than 16,000 vehicles tonnes of reinforced concrete and change, which will include at-grade fairs Jean-Yves Le Drian. (QNA) per hour. 20 pylons and 16 piers to reach the signalised intersection along with Continued on page 2 Ô Young farmers all set to export vegetables to Europe soon SANTHOSH CHANDRAN and strong market network, a “Producing vegetables all metres by 2021” available in the market, farm- DOHA large number of young farm- around the year with locally- In an effort to make the ers can control the climate ers have expanded greenhouse developed technology was production a year-round af- in greenhouse with a remote MAINTAINING a vegetable farming using locally-devel- our target. After considerable fair, many of the farmers have control without visiting physi- farm by providing ideal tem- oped technology. research, we have developed also shifted from convention- cally. Temperature, sunlight perature, water, air circula- Many among them have fully automated greenhouses al method of cultivation to radiation, irrigation system, tion, sunlight through tech- potential to export their qual- ideal to local weather result- fully-automated greenhouses. air circulation- everything nology and tapping maximum ity products to Europe and ing in manifold growth in “Now, we are offering this can be controlled through a yield is now a regular practice friendly countries in the Gulf quality production. Currently, technology to other farmers. remote-control system. So, of many young farmers in Al region in near future. we are exporting our products Most of the materials used for we are trying communicating Shahaniya, Al Khor and Al Speaking to Qatar Trib- to Kuwait and Oman and we’ll manufacturing greenhouses with plants through technol- Shamal. une at an event in Doha re- soon start exporting to Eu- are local. Now, the green- ogy and making each plant Inspired by Agriculture De- cently, Director of Al Tahaluf rope. We are also planning to house set up by us is one of healthy and comfortable to partment under the Ministry of Food Stuff and Agrico Green- expand the total greenhouse the best in the world. Accord- provide quality products,” Vegetables being grown in a greenhouse. Municipality and Environment houses, Nasser al Khalaf said, area to one million square ing to the latest technology Khalaf said. 02 Thursday, April 18, 2019 Contact US: Qatar Tribune I EDITORIAL I Phone: 40002222 I ADMINISTRATION & MARKETING I Phone: 40002155, 40002122, Fax: 40002235 P.O. Box: 23493, Doha. MME holds meeting on State News of the Environment Report in brief THE Ministry of Municipal- Director of Monitoring and ity and Environment (MME), Environmental Laboratory Amir sends condolences represented by the Monitor- Hassan Ali Qassimi said the to Congo president ing and Environmental Labo- State of the Environment Re- ratory, on Wednesday held a port is one of the most impor- THE Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani sent on preparatory meeting for the tant reports prepared by the au- Wednesday a cable of condolences to President of Congo expanded working group to thority in the country through Felix Tshisekedi on the victims of the ship tragedy, wishing the review, amend and update the a scientific assessment and injured a speedy recovery. (QNA) State of the Environment Re- review of the level of environ- port in Qatar, with the partici- mental performance and trends Deputy Amir sends condolences CHIEF OF STAFF WITH TURKISH FORCES COMMANDER: Qatari Armed Forces Chief of Staff HE Lieutenant- pation of representatives of 26 in order to protect the environ- to Congo president General Ghanem bin Shaheen al Ghanem met with Turkish Forces Commander in Doha on Wednesday.