Agriculture Jordan: Achievements and projects

Ministry of Agriculture of Jordan announced the growth of agricultural exports by 42% in 2014. Exports increased by 450 million dinars, compared with 2011, despite the crisis in the region and border closures.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, agricultural exports increased from 795 million dinars in 2011, 864 million dinars – in 2012, 979 million dinars – in 2013 and 1.13 billion dinars – in 2014.

The tonnage of exported fruits and vegetables increased from 841.4 ths. Tons in 2011 to 801.37 thous. Tons – in 2012, 793.8 thous. Tons – in 2013 and 888 ths. Tons – in 2014.Accordingly, increased and revenues from sales: from 420 million dinars in 2011 to 458 million dinars – in 2012, 468 million dinars – in 2013 and 535 million dinars – in 2014, despite the crisis in the neighboring countries and periodic closures border crossing points.

The sheep livestock exports increased from 392 thous. Heads in 2011 to 400 thousand. – In 2012, 663 thousand. – In 2013 and 620 thousand. – In 2014.

In addition, the rise was recorded in prices for agricultural products (fruits and vegetables) to 7% in 2013 (compared with 2012) and by 5.4% in 2014 (compared with 2013 year).

At a press conference on the most important achievements in the agricultural sector during the years 2013-2014, the representative of the Ministry of Agriculture told to increase the capital of the Agrarian Credit Corporation to 10 million dinars, which gives it the ability to finance farmers for the development of agricultural projects, improve sales opportunities, as well as the reduction of poverty and unemployment in rural areas.

During the reporting period saw the rise of a new Co-operative Corporation of Jordan in the field of restructuring, providing the necessary funding and staffing. The Corporation again able to fully perform their tasks on the organization of the cooperative movement, provision of administrative, control, accounting and support services co-operatives when they receive the necessary funding.

Jordan was the regional headquarters of the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development. April 27, 2014 signed a special agreement on the opening of a regional office of the organization in Amman, which controls the activities of its offices in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq.

The Ministry of Agriculture was able to approve a draft law on the management of regulated agricultural risk management, which is currently in Parliament. The draft law “On compensation to farmers and the allocation of financial resources for compensation” should supplement the law “On agriculture” №13 in 2015, which was published in the official gazette of 04.16.2015 and entered into force on 05.16.2015.

In the kingdom of the executable program of concessional financing for small and medium-sized agricultural enterprises, implemented by the central and commercial banks providing loans to 3% lower than the current interest rate with a grace period of repayment.

Continue updating the concept of agricultural development of the country, which regulates the relations of the Ministry with the private sector: offer services to farmers, importers and exporters, motion control products on the internal market and protecting the domestic market from the plant and animal diseases and monitoring compliance with the quality of imported products its price.

Cabinet approval is waiting draft national “Strategy for Agricultural Development in the 2015-2024 gg.”, And a draft “Strategy of national food security in the years 2015-2020.”, Developed by the Ministry of Agriculture with the assistance of other authorities, as well as the United Nations Development Programme UNDP and the World Food Programme WFP.

Developed five strategies import: import policy of vegetables and fresh fruit, powdered milk import policy, the policy of food import policy import policy sheep and poultry imports.

The Ministry is continuing its efforts to enter the Russian market for the export of fruit and vegetables. The cooperation began with a meeting with the minister of agriculture in Russia in October 2010. Later there was a meeting of the Russian-Jordanian Council in Moscow, and then in March 2015 in Amman, signed a customs agreement with Russia, which provides special preferences to Jordanian agricultural products to the Russian market.

June 20-22, 2015 in Amman delegation led by the Director General of the Customs Department, as well as members of the Chamber of Commerce of Amman and the private agricultural sector, with the financial support of the Chamber of Commerce in Amman held a series of meetings with the delegation of Russian importers to develop a practical program to start the import .

In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Information and supported by the government designed and implemented a plan of realization of government policy on conservation forestry. The government has allocated 30 patrol cars, and also agreed to purchase an additional 12 vehicles, and doubled the amount of fuel to be used in the forestry sector.

Agricultural Credit Corporation in 2013, has provided loans to farmers in the amount of 29.2 million dinars, and in 2014 – 34.5 million dinars. The maximum loan limit was increased from 100 to 150 thousand. Dinars. Currently, the corporation is implementing 5 projects support farmers to achieve the objectives of reducing government agricultural policy interest rates on loans for these projects up to 2%. Such projects include the project of micro-loans for the reduction and monitoring of poverty and unemployment, which in the 2014-2020 period. It will be spent 50 million dinars. In 2014 it was spent 4.5 million dinars for the projects construction of greenhouses and drip irrigation; Project cultivation of date palms; solar energy projects; Project vnemeniya fertilizers through irrigation to ensure water, agriculture, increasing its diversity and productivity, and improve quality.

In the period from 01.01.2013 on 04.30.2015 years. immunization have been 2.4 million head of sheep and cows. Sheep immunized five times by five different diseases – cows three times by three types of diseases.

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