Wheat farmers in Beqaa and Rashayya urge Minister to settle their entitlements

Wheat farmers protested to the Ministry of Economy demanding the payment of their entitlements which were approved earlier by the Cabinet of Ministers. A number of farmers in the villages of Rachaya and West Beqaa said they have enquired into the delay to learn that the Minister of Economy and Trade, Alan Hakim, did not endorse the payments yet. They urged concerned parties to release the funds and spare hundreds of rural families an inevitable economic and social disaster, especially those burdened with loan interests resulting from unsuccessful crop yields.
(Al Mustaqbal, Feb 7, 2015)