Minister of Agriculture Receives Delegation of AAAID

– The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Al-Tahir Harbi, received Wednesday in his office a delegation of the Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development (AAAID), headed by the Director of the authority’s Agricultural Investment Administration, Mohamed Osman Abdul-Gadir, and in presence of the Director of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Agriculture, Badr-Eddin Mustafa, and appreciated the great role of the AAAID in boosting the agricultural production and processing.

Harbi has affirmed the readiness to restore the AAAID to its normal position and to rearrange the projects, calling for a joint committee to be formed between the two parties to support the cooperation and coordination and to solve the problems facing the AAAID.

The Director of Investment at the AAAID pointed out that the authority’s priorities include the realization of food security and support to investment, reviewing the AAAID contribution to providing finance to the small-scale farmers.

He referred to the problems facing the AAAID, top of them and the expropriation of lands and absence of a suitable climate for investment in the country.