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As the part of citizenship program in schools, the Ministry of Education represented by Al Dhakhiyah Directorate General of Education applied a project titled ´Positive Interaction and Responsibility Feeling for the Homeland ´which aimed to implant values in students at social, environment, agriculture, traffic, technology fields. Um Al Khair girls# school participated in the project of the impact of foreign workers in the agriculture sector. Moreover, Fakhriyah Al Qassabiah the Project Supervisor in the school said that in the past, the Omani person worked in the agriculture field, which considered as a significant sector of providing work opportunities and a basic pillar of economic development. She also added that the Ministry of Agriculture and Fish Fortune took a great care of this sector by adopting various targeted policies and programs in order to achieve more sustainable development via using modern technology and providing cognitive and technical awareness to farmers but there was increasing of foreign workers in the labor market unfortunately in GCC countries. She said that the summery of study pointed out that citizen took big responsibility to bring the workers and had the role to stop or at least reduce them and we noted that that many citizens who own agricultural land or farms, whether small or large trying to recruit expatriate workers, although there was no need for them; so the school team worked in this framework using a range of agricultural tools, such as interviews with several government institutions, like the Department of Agricultural Development in Izki. The team also published a set of questionnaires for the surrounding community and a seminar on the employment of expatriate workers in agriculture held at Nizwa University In addition, the school hosted the exhibition related to the study "Our Land is Our Fortune ", where the exhibition hosted a group of concerned entities in the local agricultural interest from the various governorates and institutions of the Sultanate to identify to highlight the dangers of using expatriate workers in farms. Especially those who sell what their farms produce. They mix bad goods with good quality and may change the dates of validity of some products and many more