Agriculture bears heavy losses due to the Zina storm

Exporters speaking to the As Safir newspaper said that they bore significant financial costs due to the freez in export because of the storm Zina which blocked the international road between the Lebanese and Syrian borders.  They confirmed that until two days ago, land transport of exported industrial and agricultural goods did not resume.  This, according to them, will result in heavy financial losses due to drop in export as well as the damages caused to six-wheelers parked at the border. The president of Lebanese Refrigerated Trucks Owners Syndicate, Omar al Ali, requested that the authorities speed up the exit procedures from Lebanon for the 110 six-wheelers carrying agricultural goods and currently blocked at the border.

On a related vein, a delegation of farmers from Kfarhalda and Basatin Al-Assi asked the Minister of Telecommunication, Boutros Harb, to compensate against damages recorded in their area because of Zina storm by the Higher Council for Relief.  Similarly delegation of farmers from Al-Haruf and Mastita in the Byblos Caza met with the Qaim Maqam, Najwa Suwaydan Farah, to discuss the present situation and to demand financial compensations.

(Source: As-Safir 13 January 14, 2015)