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The demand for food products doubles
United Arab Emirates
Tuesday 16 July 2013
FJ
During the month of Ramadan, the demand for food increases significantly, up to +200% estimated a supermarket director.
Food consumption during Ramadan increases.
Month of fasting, Ramadan, however, is a time when food consumption explodes. Everywhere additional food purchases are recorded. Families buy for the holidays between parents, friends and neighbors but also for charity and feeding the poor.
A director of a hypermarket chain Lulu believes that the demand for food products rises, in some cases amounting up to 200%.
Paradoxical situation for a period when people have to fast for 15 hours per day, which should reduce food consumption by 2/3. Food security becomes a challenge in the Islamic world as a whole. Egypt imports about 70% of its food needs, the situation is more alarming in the Gulf States that import between 80 to 95% of their needs.
source : the peninsula quatar com
