The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Jordanian Cooperative Corporation, Minister of Agriculture, Eng. Khaled Al-Hanifat, said that the Cabinet’s decision to set the purchase prices of wheat and barley seeds from farmers for the 2022/2023 season contributes to supporting farmers of these two crops.

The Cabinet had decided to approve the purchase prices for wheat and barley at 500 dinars per ton for seed wheat, 420 dinars for port wheat, and the price of seed barley at 420 dinars per ton, and 370 dinars per ton for port barley.

Al-Hunaifat emphasized working through the National Plan for Sustainable Agriculture (2022-2025) to develop and rehabilitate the seed multiplication stations of the cooperative by introducing modern technology to them, both in terms of screening units and the weighing mechanism.

He pointed out that the agricultural and cooperative sectors receive great attention and direct follow-up by King Abdullah II and the Council of Ministers, in line with the implementation of the priorities of the economic modernization vision and the public sector development plan regarding these two sectors.

Al-Hunaifat praised the efforts made by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply, within the Central Committee for the Purchase of Grain, with regard to the purchase and storage of wheat and port barley in its silos.

In turn, the Director General of the Jordanian Cooperative Corporation, Abdel Fattah Al-Shalabi, confirmed that the government’s decision to buy wheat and barley seeds from farmers at subsidized prices is an integral part of its continuous support for them, due to the added value of the expansion of wheat and barley crops cultivation in the food security system.

Al-Shalabi stressed that this decision encourages farmers in the Kingdom to cultivate their lands with wheat and barley crops, adding that the cooperative institution, through its seed multiplication stations in the northern, central and southern regions, began early preparations to receive farmers’ crops of wheat and barley seeds, according to the prices subsidized by the government. .

He pointed out that the cooperative institution worked through the National Plan for Sustainable Agriculture (2022-2025) to rehabilitate its stations, noting the paving of the stations yards, and the purchase of modern screening units with a screening capacity of 10 tons / hour.