{"id":43683,"date":"2019-09-25T09:29:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T01:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43683"},"modified":"2019-09-25T10:08:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T02:08:37","slug":"lebanon-to-use-scanners-on-borders-with-syria-to-combat-rising-agricultural-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43683","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon To Use Scanners On Borders With Syria To Combat Rising Agricultural Smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Sept 25 (NNN-NNA) &#8212; Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, said that, Lebanon will very soon place scanners on all land and maritime crossings, along the Lebanon-Syria borders to control smuggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Smuggling from Syria has increased to around 40 percent, after the civil war subsided in the neighbouring country, which is unacceptable,&#8221; Hariri said, during a conference held in Beirut, to tackle topics related to agriculture and the difficulties faced by Lebanese farmers, including threat of smuggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hariri said, the presence of illegal smuggling is one of the problems facing the agricultural sector in Lebanon, as the smuggled agro products from Syria compete with local produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the prime minister said that Lebanon cannot close its market to foreign products because this will harm the country&#8217;s exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, he said that some of the free trade agreements must also be revised in favour of Lebanon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hariri said, the Lebanese government, in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Bank, will work on a complete strategy for the overhaul of the sector.&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Sept 25 (NNN-NNA) &#8212; Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, said that, Lebanon will very soon place scanners on all land and maritime crossings, along the Lebanon-Syria borders to control smuggling. &#8220;Smuggling from Syria has increased to around 40 percent, after the civil war subsided in the neighbouring country, which is unacceptable,&#8221; Hariri said, during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43683"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}