02/10/2020 16:14
[Baghdad-Where]
The Ministry of Agriculture announced today, Friday, the start of operations to export dates to countries of the world through the private sector.
The official spokesman of the ministry, Hamid Al-Nayef, said in a statement, "The Minister of Agriculture, Muhammad Karim Al-Khafaji, has instructed to facilitate all procedures for the export process, whether in the field of granting export licenses or in the process of fumigation and fumigation of dates ready for export by the private sector."
He pointed to "the continued prevention of importing dates and molasses in order to protect the local product." Usually, "what enters them is through illegal means."
He added, "The quantities expected to be exported of dates may reach about 700 thousand tons to the Gulf countries, the Maghreb and some foreign countries and according to the destination of the private sector merchants," calling on "all security agencies and the Border Crossing Authority to tighten measures in order to protect the local product from one side, and increase imports The state in hard currency is another aspect of our national economy
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