The green star in the desert Samir Kousa, farm chief operating officer of As- tra Farms, talking to Fruit World editor Gerhard H. Breuer in Tabuk

摘要

Astra has five production centres: open field vegetable production, fruit growing and flowers. "We have animal husbandry with cows, sheep, and last but not least there's the poultry farm. In addition, there are three centres for all five production fields: sales and marketing, the reselling trade, and finally operation and maintenance." This includes electricity production and distribution as well as construction and maintenance of the roads and of the vehicle fleet and the agricultural machines. The marketing department has three bases - Jeddah, Dammam and Riad. Orders are passed on to the centre in Tabuk from there.