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Iraq lifted the ban on Jordanian agricultural products to export two thousand tons per day
03/28/2012 11:24:21
(Iba) / follow / received by farmers Jordanian Iraqi government's decision to lift the ban on the agricultural product of Jordan this week thanks and praise and appreciation for the position of the Iraqi official and popular representatives of the Prime Minister of Iraq Nuri al-Maliki and the Economic Committee in his cabinet, which recommended that responded to the demands of the Iraqi private sector, traders and exporters of Iraqis and the needs of the Iraqi market for vegetables.
This contributes to the resolution the absorption of surplus agricultural product prices and improving Jordan's domestic and alleviate the suffering of the farms and the source of Jordan to reduce losses resulting from the cessation of the Iraqi market for import since December last year.
The head of the Farmers' Union and the Jordan Valley Adnan servants have let us know the Ambassador of Iraq in Amman yesterday that the Iraqi government lifted the ban on import of agricultural products Jordanian yesterday, we discussed with the Ambassador issue import licenses and shipping across the Iraqi border and communicated officially by the Iraqi side to allow for agricultural products to cross Iraqi territory, according to Iraqi government decision where he promised the Iraqi ambassador in Amman to conduct communications with his government in Baghdad to circulate on the Iraqi border crossings and to allow the agricultural product to cross the Iraqi market.
He said the Iraqi decision, and that was late, but it will help ease the size of the losses of the current agricultural season and the reduction of marketing bottlenecks suffered by the national agricultural product during the last period.
In response to a question about the possibility of providing the needs of the Iraqi market daily and export markets foreign markets, local consumer in light of the end of the 60% of the current planting season, he said we as a union we will work in collaboration with the agricultural sector, brokers and exporters to meet the needs of the local market and overseas markets and prices to suit the capacities of National Consumer Finance, as Iraq sought to provide a 180 thousand tons of various vegetables originating in Jordan.
The servants said that the Saudi and Iraqi resolutions allowing the importation of agricultural products contributed to the improvement of the Jordanian price level and reduce the losses of farmers that got the current planting season because of low prices of agricultural products to below the marketing costs.
The head of the Assembly of the Union of the products to exporters of agricultural products of Jordan Solomon Hiyari we learned from the Iraqi ambassador in Amman, his Government's decision to lift the ban on the agricultural product of Jordan to enter the Iraqi market and we are awaiting instructions of Iraq for the crossings and the Iraqi border for the time and mechanism of entry of agricultural products, indicating that the market of Iraq and Syria from the market main support of the agricultural product of Jordan, where they will be by decision of the new Iraqi export two thousand tons per day of Iraqi market of different kinds of products vegetative Jordan while it is currently exporting over 90 prada a day to Syria laden with various vegetable varieties which impacted positively on the prices of agricultural products, national locally and the disposal of marketing problem of bottlenecks.
And across farmers expressed their thanks and appreciation to the Governments of Iraq and Jordan on this resolution which supports the pan-Arab national economy of Jordan and the consumer believes the Iraqi vegetative its needs at moderate prices after the Iraqi vegetable market has seen a shortage of requirements and a rise in vegetable prices available, including in Iraq.
Al «constitution» yesterday that fruit and vegetable markets have seen a remarkable rise in the price of wholesale sales has sold an explosive weight of 10 kg tomatoes at $ 5.2 dinars after it was sold last week, one dinar. (end)
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