The city of Madaba is preparing to host one of the largest projects dedicated to the livestock trade in the Kingdom, with the contract for building a new livestock market, valued at one million dinars, awarded on a site covering about 55 dunams. The strategic project aims to move livestock trade from its traditional form into an integrated commercial, service, and investment system capable of attracting traders and breeders from all governorates of the Kingdom.
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Eng. Haitham Juwainat, chairman of the Greater Madaba Municipality Committee, said that awarding the contract represents an advanced step toward implementing the project, which has been awaited since 2017, affirming that the municipality has made continuous efforts to overcome the obstacles that prevented its implementation in past years, leading up to completing its requirements and beginning implementation procedures.
Juwainat explained that the project will be built on a plot of land the municipality expropriated at a cost of nearly 700,000 dinars, covering up to 55 dunams, providing the space needed to establish a market with modern specifications, making it eligible to be the largest of its kind in the Kingdom in terms of area and the integration of facilities and services.
He noted that the value of the awarded contract is one million dinars, funded jointly: 650,000 dinars from the allocations of the Madaba Governorate Council, and 350,000 dinars from the Greater Madaba Municipality's fund. He added that the project will be implemented in three phases during 2026, 2027, and 2028, with its total cost estimated, according to plans prepared by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), at around 7 million euros.
He affirmed that the project goes beyond the idea of a traditional livestock buying and selling market, as it includes a specialized service city with wide, organized yards for displaying and trading livestock, slaughterhouses, veterinary clinics, warehouses, an administrative building, internal roads, vehicle parking, lighting systems, health facilities, and public services, providing a suitable environment for the various activities linked to livestock trade.
Juwainat added that the municipality intends to involve the private sector in operating and investing in the market's facilities, opening the door for investors and livestock traders to contribute to developing its services, calling on traders from across the Kingdom to visit the municipality's investment department and submit their applications to benefit from the project's first phase.
He pointed out that the new market is being established to address the environmental, service, and organizational problems suffered by the current market, whose facilities are no longer able to keep pace with the requirements of this sector, noting that the project will provide a more organized environment, improve public health and safety conditions, reduce environmental impacts, regulate the movement of livestock and vehicles, and provide specialized veterinary and health services.
He noted that the choice of location and area came in response to the project's future requirements, allowing it to accommodate large numbers of livestock, traders, and vehicles, with the possibility of expansion and adding new investment and service facilities, strengthening the market's ability to serve all regions of the Kingdom.
Juwainat stressed the importance of cooperation with the Madaba Governorate Council in providing the necessary funding, affirming that the partnership between the municipality and the council is a fundamental pillar for completing the project and turning it into tangible reality, reflecting positively on economic and investment activity in the governorate.
According to Juwainat, the project presents an opportunity to reorganize the livestock trade sector and provide it with specialized infrastructure, as well as strengthen Madaba's standing as a commercial and service hub that attracts economic activity from across the governorates, opening new horizons for investment and activities linked to livestock raising and marketing.
Reporting by Ahmad Al-Shawabkeh
