Al-Halboosi Receives Ministers of Agriculture, Trade and Water Resources

The Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halboosi on Monday, held a meeting included the Ministers of Water Resources Mr. Jamal al-Adili, Agriculture Mr. Saleh al-Hasnawi and Trade Mohammed al-Ani; to discuss and follow up the demands of the province of Diwaniyah.

The Parliament Speaker affirmed his keenness to follow up the demands of the province with the relevant authorities to speed up their resolution.

The meeting discussed the need to work to find solutions to cancel the accumulated debts of farmers to rent agricultural land in previous years for all governorates of Iraq, including Diwaniyah, in addition to raising prices of the crop to reduce poverty in the provinces producing it, and work to intensify efforts to reclaim agricultural land in the province and padding lines of irrigation channels, as well as discussing the file of the Ministry of Trade to establish a new silo of 60 thousand tons and included in the financial allocations of the ministry.

The Parliament Speaker stressed to form a ministerial delegation includes both the Ministers of Water Resources, Agriculture and Trade to visit Diwaniyah province next week, to follow up the needs of the province in all sectors, each according to its competence.

His Excellency has visited the province of Diwaniyah yesterday to discuss the reality of the service, the most prominent obstacles that stand in the way of providing services to citizens, and the most important lagging and completed projects.

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Media Office
Of the Parliament Speaker
Sep 2, 2019