Envoy to present award to Al Fraih

Envoy to present award to Al Fraih

25/2/1990

ON Tuesday February 27, the Ambassador of the Netherlands, Joseph Veling, will present the Holland Agricultural Export Award to Mohammed I. Al Fraih of Burgan Agri-Food Industries.

The Agricultural Export Award is awarded by the Neth- erlands minister of agriculture to businessmen who, through their outstanding efforts, have made a long-term, significant contribu- tion to the export and marketing of Dutch agricultural and hor- ticultural products. The award, first instituted in 1986, has until now been presented twice within the Gulf area, both times to businessmen in Saudi Arabia.

The long-term, outstanding relations Mohammed Al Fraih has with Holland and Dutch companies fully justify his choice as recipient of the award. For over fifteen years he has done business with Dutch firms, importing and marketing a wide variety of products ranging from poultry-farms and greenhouses to hatching eggs, one-day chicks and flower seeds.

He promoted the use of Dutch technology and expertise to ass- ist in the development of agricul- ture in Kuwait. The first and to this day largest poultry farm, as well as the big glasshouse com- plexes were set-up by Dutch companies, who also con- tributed new irrigation methods and their agricultural technology in general to the development of Kuwait.

Mohammed Al Fraih has thereby made himself known as a man with expert knowledge of the agricultural sector, who is, moreover, extremely pleasant to do business with.

By establishing a durable busi- ness-relationship with the Neth- erlands, Al Fraih has con- tributed towards the cementing of the bilateral relations between the State of Kuwait and the Kin- gdom of the Netherlands.