YEMEN ANTI-QAT DRAFT LAW IN CABINET-MINISTER

TAIZ, March 14 (Saba) – Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation has
submitted a draft law to the Cabinet aiming at limiting qat
cultivation and water conservation , minister Mansour al-Hawshabi
has said.

At the end of three training courses that were organized by the
Rural Development Project in association with the Taiz-based Media
Traing Center, the minister made clear that the draft law included
imposing a direct tax on lands planted with qat and doubling the tax
gradually until it burdens farmers forcing them to shift to
growing crops.

About 290 agricultural guides took part in the courses that focused
on enabling the participants to learn new skills of improving and
continuing growing crops and care of livestock.

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