In response to inquiries by tobacco growers on the newly-enforced measures by the Regie pigeon-holing farmers as active or non-active and the effect thereon on obtaining licenses, the head of the Syndicate of Tobacco and Tombac Growers in the North, Abdel Hamid Sakr, confirmed on November 8, that the above procedure does not involve prices or licenses. It is related only to the agricultural medicines active tobacco growers benefit from, Sakr clarified. It also gives an edge to the active farmer over the so-called non-active one in terms of selling the crop during the agreed period, he added. (Al Diyar, November 9, 2020)