Tax on the “thousand pounds” … will you do “agriculture”?

The Minister of Agriculture, Abbas Mortada, indicated that in the government “we face challenges” we have plans, points of view and ideas, and we are determined in the government to transform the economy from a rentier economy to a productive one, and this problem is not achieved quickly, but needs work and time. During this stage, we begin to achieve, and next week we will launch maternal fields for all fruit trees in the Department of Agricultural Research, and for two months we have been testing, and all the seedlings we import from abroad have “rooted” us. in our land.

He considered that the most important thing about this is that we will be able to export these seedlings abroad and we will work to ensure local fruits throughout the year.

During the meeting of the Minister of Industry with the Industrial Caucus in Bekaa, Mortada noted that the Ministry of Agriculture is allowing land in Lebanon today, and we will present a bill to impose a tax of £ 1,000 per meter not grown in the Lebanon to promote agriculture. And all people are invited to join forces between the public and private sectors, hoping to free up industrial funds for factory development and the details of life through which we develop our capabilities.

On the subject of Indian hemp, he pointed out that it has become an effective law and we are waiting for the formation of the regulatory body for this sector that I called gold for the people of Bekaa, and the economic viability of this sector is easy and simple, and we are working today in coordination with scientists in Lebanon and we are doing tests to cross seedlings. Indian hemp is not imported from abroad, and costs $ 3 from abroad, and we are working to cost the plant 0.60 cents if it is produced in Lebanon. He stressed that we encourage drug manufacturing in Lebanon, and we are working on hybridizing cannabis seedlings so that the drug is only 0.3.

Murtada emphasized that there are great hopes and plans in the government to achieve the goals in the next year, and we have 110 hectares that need reforms and we will work with the green project on that.

He explained that, under the Corona crisis, we suffered a great setback, and the first and last interest today is for the Lebanese consumer, and we are working to ensure the best types of food with good prices and cheap quality.