Razzaz meets with head of Lower House Agriculture Committee

AMMAN — Prime Minister Omar Razzaz on Sunday met with the head of the Lower House’s Agriculture Committee MP Khalid Hiyari to discuss the tax on agricultural production inputs and find ways to boost the sector and overcome its challenges, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

During the meeting, which was also attended by the Minister of Political and Parliamentary Affairs Musa Maaytah, the prime minister stressed the government’s keenness to find solutions to the challenges and problems facing the sector in addition to re-considering the agricultural inputs tax within a plan to restudy the total taxation burden. Razzaz said the government places “great importance” on the agricultural sector so as to alleviate its suffering “as soon as possible”.