BEIRUT, Nov 4 (NNN-NNA) – The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), of the United Nations, yesterday signed an agreement with Lebanon, to provide 500,000 U.S. dollars, to support the country’s wheat cultivation plan.
The agreement was signed between Lebanese Agriculture Minister, Abbas Hajj Hassan and FAO Representative in Lebanon, Noura Ourabah Haddad, the Elnashra news website reported.
The donation is divided into two parts, with 250,000 dollars allocated to buying seeds, and the rest for technical training for farmers and rehabilitating the seed multiplication centre, at the Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute.
Hassan launched the national wheat cultivation strategy a day earlier, amid concern about a wheat crisis in Lebanon, as the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues.
Fears of disruption in wheat supplies have increased in Lebanon, since the eruption of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in late Feb, as the country imports the bulk of its grains from the Black Sea region.– NNN-NNA
