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15-1-2018
House Speaker Nabih Berri represented by agriculture minister, Ghazi Zeiater, sponsored the inauguration of the conference on Sustainable Agricultural Development at Bassel Assad’s Cultural Center in Tyre. Zeiater in his opening address emphasized his support to protect and develop agricultural resources, pointing that the marginalization of agriculture in a developing state like Lebanon, has continued for decades in favor of fostering other industries. To date, Zeiater said, despite efforts to increase subsidies to the sector, these barely reached 1% of the total general budget. Meanwhile, the minister of labor, Mohamad Kabara represented by the ministry’s director general, George Aida, sponsored the completion of three workshops at the National Vocational Training Center in Dekwaneh, implemented by the European Institute for Cooperation and Development and funded jointly by UNHCR and the French Agency for Development. The courses which covered, the installation and maintenance of air conditioners, refrigerators and household electricity grids, as well as different life skills, targeted some 45 Lebanese, Syrian and Iraqi participants, including school dropouts and job seekers. In the same vein, and under the patronage of tourism minister, Avedis Guidanian, the Badr Hassoun Eco Village in Dahr el Ain organized on Saturday the ‘Eco Tourism Wedding’ to mark its placing on Lebanon’s touristic map. On the occasion, Eco Village CEO, Dr. Badr Hassoun, outlined the various stages of construction of the Village which represented his childhood dream, pointing to the planting of about 60,000 square meters of flowers and to the many families working on and benefiting from the project and its products. (Al Diyar, An Nahar, Al Mustaqbal, January, 13, 14, 15, 2018)
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