AMMAN — Minister of Planning and International
Cooperation Nasser Al-Shraideh said on Tuesday that the ministry will sign a
new agreement with the
European Investment Bank (EIB) to provide 130 million
euros to enhance food security in Jordan in the coming weeks, according to
Al-Mamlaka TV.
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“This agreement builds on recent efforts by the
government not only to enhance its purchases of the strategic commodities wheat
and barley, but also to expand its capacity to store these commodities for a
period of 24 months,” he said.
This and other agreements meant to enhance Jordan’s
emergency food supply follow
His Majesty King Abdullah’s directives to the
government to strengthen the food security infrastructure in the country, to
enable the government to provide strategic commodities, including wheat and
barley, to citizens.
Jordan and the OPEC Fund for International
Development signed a $100 million agreement also on Tuesday to finance the
emergency food security project in Jordan as part of an integrated vision to
continue providing liquidity to the general budget to finance the purchase of
strategic goods.
This agreement is one of three others, the first of
which was signed with the Islamic Development Bank Group last week and included
the provision of a total of $200 million.
“The government policy related to food security succeeded,
during the COVID-19 pandemic and the
Russian-Ukrainian crisis, in providing
sufficient supplies of strategic commodities to consumers, as silos and
containers that were built in recent times made it possible to maintain
sufficient stocks of wheat and barley,” he said.
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