Damascus-Sana
The Council of Ministers set the price of buying wheat crops from farmers for the next season at 450 liras per kilogram while granting a delivery bonus of 100 liras per kilogram to those who market their wheat to the centers of the Grain Corporation and the barley purchase price at 200 pounds per kilogram and agreed to grant compensation to farmers affected by fires on the basis of 17 kilograms. Each olive tree costs 600 liras per kilogram.
During its weekly session chaired by Engineer Hussein Arnous, Prime Minister, the Council addressed the amendment of the financial effects of motivating workers at scientific, research and educational institutions according to appropriate rates, and specifically discussed draft legislative instruments on improving compensation rates, the nature of work, incentives and rewards for workers in the education and higher education sectors, and a draft legislative instrument. Establishing the Faculty of Surveying and Geomatics Engineering at Tishreen University.
The Cabinet also decided to equip two metal silos at the sites (Debsi Afnan and Kafr Joum) and to expedite the preparation of an additional wheat reception center in Hasakah, stressing intensified efforts to improve the reality of bread loaf production, maintain the approved weight with good specifications, provide the needs of ovens on a regular basis, and combat flour smuggling.
Eng. Arnous asked the government team to make the utmost efforts in dealing with the basic needs of citizens and continuous follow-up to them, bypassing routine work, creating initiatives and proposing solutions for any emergency, enhancing cooperation and coordination with the relevant unions to control markets, monitor prices, prevent any defects, and hold violators accountable in accordance with the laws and regulations in force in parallel with Establishing tracking mechanisms for projects listed in the government statement and developing indicators and methods that can measure completion rates.
The Prime Minister indicated that additional measures should be taken to enhance the role of NGOs in supporting government efforts to achieve social development, enhance the work of cultural centers, and hold dialogue seminars to highlight the decisions taken and benefit from the opinions put forward in developing them.
The council discussed the memorandum of the Ministry of Economy on the reality of small and medium enterprises, providing the requirements for their development, proposals to address difficulties, and requesting that the Ministry of Economy be provided with the notes to be used in approving the plan in its final form.
The concerned ministries were asked to expedite the completion of cleaning and removal of rain drains and to avoid the gaps that had occurred previously, and to emphasize that private schools were committed to securing the means of transportation necessary to transport students and teachers, and to present a memorandum containing realistic development steps for the industrial and agricultural sectors and networking between them to provide the local market need and supply the Syrian trade with its needs of materials the basic.
In a statement to reporters after the session, the Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Eng. Muhammad Hassan Qatana, said that the Council agreed to grant compensation to farmers whose olive trees were damaged by the fires, according to the production estimates set by the Ministry of Agriculture on the basis of 17 kilograms per olive tree instead of 4.5 kilograms at the specified price. 600 pounds per kilogram, provided that the distribution will take place during the month of November, in addition to the distribution of fruit plants during the month of December.
For his part, Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade, Dr. Muhammad Samer Al-Khalil, said that the Council of Ministers reviewed how to advance the reality of small, medium and micro enterprises that constitute more than 90 percent of the projects operating on the Syrian geographic area, how to advance this sector and the need to prepare an effective national strategy attached to executive programs in order to Solve all the problems that hinder the development of these projects, whether through qualification and training for entrepreneurs wishing to establish private enterprises or by providing all facilities related to the procedures for obtaining licenses and everything related to the ability to access financing and facilitating these procedures in cooperation with the Small Enterprise Loan Risk Guarantee Corporation Medium and access to feasible marketing for these projects.
The Minister of Higher Education, Dr. Bassam Ibrahim explained that the amendment of the productive incentives system was discussed for members of the teaching and educational staff and administrative cadres in universities through supervising scientific research and masters letters and the completion of scientific research. This project includes examination and control work as well as the fees for teaching hours and those who study and are not the owners of universities. It leads to motivating the university professor, employee, and administrative cadres for better scientific production and achievement, and thus raising the university ranking
In addition to encouraging scientific publishing, whether in local or foreign scientific journals, adding that the creation of the College of Surveying and Geomatics Engineering at Tishreen University was discussed, as this branch is an important specialty in the reconstruction phase.