USD 115 per dunum in financial compensation for wheat farmers

As Safir daily reported today a breakthrough in settling the demands of whet farmers in Lebanon following the Prime Minister Tammam Salam’s decision to allocate and amount of Lebanese Pound 175 thousand per dunum of wheat in compensation and to suspend the collection by the Ministry of Economy of wheat harvest from farmers who were allowed to freely market or dispose of their crops.  The approval according to As Safir came after a meeting which included MP Issam Araji, Future Movement Coordinator for Central Beqaa Ayoob Kaz3oon, Wheat Farmers’ President Khaled Shuman, and a number of concerned farmers. According to the newspaper, the procedure is exceptional for this year, noting that normally the Ministry of Economy collects the wheat crop from local farmers based on world price which last year reached LBP 590 per kilogram. (As Safir, September 30, 2015)