a 500-bed specialist hospital and a 160-bed Saudi-German Hospital - in Hail. The projects are to cost SR330 million. He also laid the foundation stone for a large flour mill in Hail yesterday in the presence of Agriculture Minister Dr. Fahd Balghoneim, who described the facility as one of the major factors of food security in the Kingdom. Saleh Suleiman, director general of the General Organization for Grain Silos and Flourmills, commended the government for providing foodstuffs to the public at subsidized rates. Hail is one of the Kingdom's major agricultural regions. It exports fruit, including citrus, apples, peaches, grapes and olives, as well as dates and grains. Hail's farmers have managed to develop new strains of wheat, barley and fruit trees that are better suited to the region's climate and produce higher-quality products at greater volumes.
