Lebanon imposes a tax on uncultivated land to encourage farmers

Lebanese Agriculture Minister Abbas Mortada announced Saturday that his ministry is in the process of introducing a bill to impose a £ 1,000 tax on every dunum not grown in Lebanon.
Today, Murtada said: “We are in a government that faces 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 economy, and this problem is not achieved quickly, but it needs work and time, and during this At the stage where we start to make the achievements 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 that we import from abroad have their origin in our land. “

He considered: “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,” noting that “the Ministry of Agriculture is inspecting land in Lebanon today, and we will present a bill to impose a tax of £ 1,000 per acre. ” It is not cultivated in Lebanon to promote agriculture, and all people are called to join forces between the public and private sectors, hoping to free up industrial funds to develop factories. “

On the subject of Indian hemp, Mortada noted that “it has become an effective law, and we are waiting for the formation of the regulatory body for this sector, which 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 to cross seedlings of Indian hemp, so that it is not imported from abroad, because it costs $ 3, while we are working to increase the cost to 0.06 cents per plant, if it occurs in Lebanon. “

He said: “We encourage the manufacture of medicines in Lebanon, and we are working to cross-produce cannabis seedlings so that the drug has only 0.030.”

He emphasized that “there are great hopes and plans in the government, to achieve the objectives 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 “in light of the Corona crisis, we suffered a major setback, and the first and last concern today is for the Lebanese consumer, and we are working to ensure the best types of food at good prices and also of good quality.”

He noted that “Lebanon, despite all its land, imports vegetables from abroad,” asked industrialists to “expand their factories to encourage farmers.”