Saudi Arabia will stop the cultivation of all kinds of green fodder in the next three years in order to save water, a cabinet statement said on Monday.

The statement, published on the official news agency SPA, also said the cabinet agreed that the agriculture ministry should present a study to detail the phasing out of the crops and alternatives to sourcing animal feed at suitable prices.

Saudi Arabia has been steadily reducing wheat cultivation and aims to be completely reliant on imports by 2016, also to save water. – Reuters