Riyadh, Saudi Arabia—Saudi Arabia is looking to enhance wheat storage capacity in the kingdom by building new silos. Once it is done the capacity will go up to 120,000 tons.
At present, Saudi Arabia’s wheat storage capacity amounts to 3.5 million tons, distributed across 14 branches in the kingdom, the deputy governor of the Saudi Grains Organization, Mohammed Al-Fawzan, told the media.
The official said that a project to construct silos in NEOM city has also been awarded to enhance the Kingdom’s storage capacity.
The storage capacity of the silos will be 120,000 tons.
He said Saudi Arabia has eight strategic commodities in strategic storage, including wheat, soybeans and corn.