The value added of Oman’s food sector rose 9.8% to RO1.555 billion in 2025 from RO1.416 billion in 2024, Oman’s National Centre for Statistics and Information said on Sunday, as local production supplied RO2.9 billion of the RO5.2 billion of food available in the country.
Imports made up the remaining RO2.3 billion, while domestic food consumption was valued at RO4.2 billion, Dr. Yousuf Mohammed Al Riyami, the center’s Director General of Statistics, said at the opening of Food Security Lab 2026 in Muscat, the Oman News Agency reported.
Fishing was the fastest-growing part of the sector, with value added up 19.7% to about RO572 million. Agriculture and livestock production rose 6.1% to about RO624 million, and food and beverage manufacturing added about RO359 million. The value added of the water sector rose 4.8% to about RO455 million.
Food and beverage product imports reached about RO1.447 billion in 2025, imports of agriculture and livestock products RO885 million and imports of fishing products RO15 million, Al Riyami said.
Food accounted for 24.4% of household spending in 2025, with average monthly food spending of RO194.5 per household. Meat and poultry took the largest share at 22.8%, followed by vegetables and fruit at 18.5%.
Eng. Asma Hamoud Al Hinai, Director of the Oman Vision 2040 Implementation Follow-up Office at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources, said the 10th Five-Year Plan, covering 2021 to 2025, produced 493 food security projects with investment of more than RO1.8 billion.
So far in 2026, up to October, 252 projects worth RO662.74 million have been recorded in the food security sectors, she said. Water resources accounted for 44 projects worth RO383.13 million, livestock 51 projects worth RO162.72 million, fisheries 64 projects worth RO75.35 million and plant resources 93 projects worth RO41.54 million.
The ministry organized this year’s lab under the theme “Localizing the Second Billion,” with a focus on raising local production, attracting investment and using artificial intelligence in the sector.
