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Japan portable farm heads for Qatar
Gulf state seeks high-tech solutions to tackling food security.
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2010 07:35 GMT

A high-tech portable vegetable farm designed and built in Japan will soon be heading to Qatar.

The innovative project is part of an effort by the desert gulf state to find ways to tackle its food security problem and grow more at home.

Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett reports from Tokyo.

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