Ensour listens to concerns of Jordan Valley farmers

AMMAN — Prime Minster Abdullah Ensour on Thursday met with Jordan Valley farmers and listened to problems facing them in the area.

Adnan Khadam, head of the Jordan Valley Farmers Union, and other union members briefed Ensour on marketing problems due to regional developments and border closures, which lowered the prices of the majority of agricultural products, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

The premier reviewed government procedures with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to allow Jordanian agricultural produce to enter Iraq through Kuwait. Agriculture Minister Akef Zu’bi said the government halted the import of some products to protect national agricultural produce.