Agriculture Minister reassures that “no food product will be missing from Lebanon despite the global crisis”

Agriculture Minister reassures that “no food product will be missing from Lebanon despite the global crisis”

NNA - Minister of Agriculture, Abbas Hajj Hassan, stressed in a TV interview on Sunday that “the food basket in the general sense is the first step and the prelude to food security.”

He added: “When we say food basket, we mean all the citizen’s daily food needs, such as oil, sugar, legumes, wheat, flour, vegetables and fruits.”

Hajj Hassan revealed that "all of these items will be assessed next Tuesday during the ministerial session of the Food Security Committee to determine the government's capabilities to secure the food basket in full, and thus confirm the issue of wheat and the inevitability of its importation.”

In this context, the Agriculture Minister assured all citizens that “there is no crisis today in Lebanon,” and that “things are good, but there will be a slight increase in wheat prices which is normal in wake of the global crisis known to everyone.”

Hajj Hassan stressed that "the main work today is to ensure that none of the basic food commodities are missing from the Lebanese market, and this is the main goal that the government is working to achieve."

 

==========R.Sh.