The Minister of Finance and Economy of the Syrian Interim Government, Abdel-Hakim Al-Masri, made a tour of inspection of the branch of the General Foundation of Grain in rural Aleppo and the General Grain Mills Company to ascertain the progress of the work at these institutions.
The tour was intended to check up on the functioning of these institutions and the procedures being used to receive wheat crops from the farmers, test samples of the crops, and reimburse farmers within a maximum period of three days.
Al-Masri was accompanied by Deputy Minister of Local Administration for Agricultural Affairs and the Director of Agriculture in Aleppo.
Al-Masri stressed the need to step up subsidies for bread produced in the bakeries of the General Foundation for Grain in the liberated areas. (Source: SOC’s Media Department)