Industrial hemp is a lifeline for Baalbek-Hermel and for the economy

The Minister of Agriculture, Abbas Hajj Hassan, received at his residence in the town of Shaath, a delegation of farmers from the Baalbek-Hermel region, calling for “the speedy issuance of implementing decrees for the law on the cultivation of industrial hemp.”

Hajj Hassan considered that “this cry that the farmers make today, expresses most of the people of the region, because the industrial hemp plant, the land of the Bekaa and Baalbek-Hermel region, is suitable for its cultivation. The industrial sector has been placed under acceleration in the Council of Ministers, and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the relevant ministries will propose the names of the members of the Commission.”

He said: “I wish our people in the Bekaa and all the Lebanese who are concerned with this file that there will be clarity in the vision. In the coming days, this file will be stimulated, and I will convey this cry that calls for accelerating the issue of industrial cannabis as much as possible, to His Excellency the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, and to the State of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, to the State of President Najib Mikati, so that the voice is louder and transmitted directly.”

Hajj Hassan said, “Indian hemp is a lifeline for this region and for the Lebanese economy, because its income is not less than one billion dollars, and therefore this matter keeps our people and youth away from cultivating cannabis, which we all consider as a pest, and we fight it as a Lebanese state, but in return we cannot tell people The cultivation of marijuana is prohibited and forbidden without alternatives.

He concluded: “We hope that the coming days will carry the desired positive in this matter, and certainly we consider that a sensitive and vital file of this importance that we cannot overlook and leave for months, and therefore we cannot also put our people, our people and our youth in the unknown, and we have a glimmer of hope in improving the productive sectors, agriculture and industry.” In our region and in our country.