Damascus-Sana
The Local Production and Export Support Authority is working to create the appropriate conditions for restarting the production process and providing possible support for all stages of production to export products and opening new markets for them through 6 different programs that include the local production and export sectors.
And Dr. Ibrahim Maidah, Director-General of the Commission stated that the procedures for implementing the accreditation program for external marketing of Syrian agricultural products "especially citrus fruits" are being pursued through the implementation of a set of activities that will introduce the program and its requirements, noting the approval of agricultural holdings from an area of 2.5 hectares and above as a first stage to rely on Lowest holdings are approved in the coming seasons, and the technical committee on the program was formed to examine and evaluate farms, as the number of farms wishing to obtain the credit reached 165 farms.
Maida said in a statement to the SANA Economic Bulletin that the support programs that the authority is working on include export subsidies by providing export incentives for ready-to-wear products, food industries, olive oil, vegetables, olives, craft industry and yarn, at a rate ranging between 5 and 9 percent of the value of these exports, indicating that the value of incentives to support exports reached During the past four years to more than 461 million pounds.
Meda pointed out that great attention should be paid to promoting products and participating in internal and external exhibitions through organizing Syrian participations in external and internal exhibitions and providing support in specific proportions and according to the specificity and nature of each exhibition, in cooperation with the Foundation for International Exhibitions and Markets and trade and industry federations, agriculture and craftsmen and with a view to highlighting Syrian products and finding opportunities Exporting, indicating the provision of more than 556 million pounds as support for the exhibitions since 2016 until the end of 2019.
On the support and encouragement of export contracts for the producers participating in the Damascus International Fair in its 2016 and 2017 sessions, Meada explained that the Economic Committee in the Cabinet approved the executive mechanism to take advantage of the export incentives provided by the authority for contracts concluded on the sidelines of the exhibition session where the authority supported the shipment of export contracts concluded on Margin of the 59 and 60 sessions of the exhibition, with a value of about two billion and 363 million pounds.
With regard to supporting local production, Maida pointed out that the authority supported contracts for the purchase of grapes from farmers by the grape manufacturing companies in Homs and Sweida, at an amount of 20 pounds per kilogram for the seasons 2016, 2017 and 2018 with a total value of more than 215 million pounds indicating that the signed agreement was implemented with the operating banks In Syria, which includes subsidizing loan interest rates for a set of targeted programs that included the paper and starch industries, the industrial country, the manufacture of fabrics, threads, and dyes, the operation of damaged and suspended poultry houses, and the setting up of factories for the production of modern irrigation requirements, and applications continue to be submitted until the end of the current year Me.
Nadim Moalla
SANA Economic Bulletin
