NNA - Minister of Agriculture, Abbas Al-Hajj Hassan, started a tour in the south at the head of a delegation from the ministry to meet with municipal and agricultural unions and farmers in order to discuss agricultural affairs and explain the mechanisms for developing the agricultural sector.

He will also be inspecting the cultivated wheat fields and encouraging farmers to grow wheat, in implementation of the plan set by the Ministry of Agriculture and approved in the Council of Ministers.

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