Yemen, Saudi Arabia discuss agricultural cooperation
The Source: /www.sabanews.net - 17/10/2009
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Yemen and Saudi Arabia discussed here on Saturday the bilateral cooperation aspects especially in filed of plant protection and pest control in the two brotherly countries.
In his meeting with a plant protection delegation of Saudi Agriculture Ministry, Undersecretary of Agriculture and Irrigation Ministry for Agricultural Services Mohammad al-Ghashm reviewed the two countries' efforts in field of desert locust control.The meeting dealt with the available potentials and technical equipments in two centers of desert locust in Yemen and kingdom so as to contribute to enhancing their role in combating any locust appearance in the coming phase.The two sides pointed the importance of strengthening the bilateral cooperation in field of conducting surveys to control the desert locust continually to serve the agricultural development and protect the agricultural crops in the two countries.
The Saudi delegation's visit aims at making a coordination program on the joint surveying for the locust reproduction areas in the two countries.The delegation got acquainted with the technical equipments and modern devices in the general department of plant protection as well as the activities carried out b y the department within campaigns of plant pest control in Yemen.
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