DAMASCUS, (ST) – Director of Fund to Support Agricultural Production, Ziad Al –Jbawi, has underlined that the fund budget for this year amounted to about 16 and a half billion Syrian pounds to support the strategic crops, seed multiplication and feed, pointing out that the ministry is currently working on a study of some crops, which will be supported according to the costs and production requirements.
Mr. Al –Jbawi said in a statement that there will be greater support for the agricultural sector and for all agricultural crops, where the fund aims to contribute to the achievement of food security and economic efficiency of the production process and enhance the competitiveness of agricultural production.
Regarding the areas covered by the Fund, Mr. Al –Jbawi explained that the Fund supports the production requirements of seeds, saplings of different kinds of fruit forest and pastoral as well as feed intended for livestock and veterinary medicines, artificial insemination used for the development of livestock and treatment of epidemic diseases and pandemics that threaten livestock.
“The Fund shall provide amounts of money of allocated subsidies in the state budget for the achievement of agricultural policy which is determined by the Cabinet annually on the proposal of the Board of Directors that determines the amounts allocated to the beneficiaries,” Mr. Al –Jbawi added.
Agricultural producers who carry out the production plan issued by the ministry and approved by the Council of Ministers benefit from the support.
The Fund provides support for some strategic agricultural products such as wheat, cotton, barley and sugar beet diabetes and other agricultural products that the ministry deems them as necessary products.
Sharif al -Khatib