BEIRUT: Agriculture Minister Akram Chehayeb called upon Parliament members to support him in his suggestion of exporting Lebanese products by sea following the closure of the Nassib crossing on the Syrian-Jordanian border.
“We need to start using the sea to export our agriculture produce in a bid to avoid losing our export markets,” he said during a meeting of Parliament’s agriculture and tourism committee Monday.
Chehayeb said there were around 22 trucks of goods exported on a daily basis in June, compared to 37 trucks daily in July. “We have to find a solution to this problem especially that around 45 percent of the Lebanese relies on the agriculture sector,” he said. The minister added that a strategy must be adopted to curb the negative repercussions of any political or security event on the sector in the future.
