Al-Sami’i inaugurates cultivation of thousand seedlings in Al-Janadyah al-Olya of At Ta’iziyah Department

Member of the Supreme Political Council Sultan Al-Sami’i on Saturday launched the cultivation of a thousand coffee seedlings in Al-Janadyah al-Olya of the Department of At Ta’iziyah.

At the inauguration attended by Abdulwasee Al-Shamsi, the governor of Taiz, Al-Sami’i commended the initiative to launch the cultivation of 1,000 coffee saplings to encourage farmers to expand coffee cultivation and rehabilitate agricultural land to translate the directives of the Revolutionary Leadership for the Promotion of Agriculture and interest in the cultivation of cash crops for food security and self-sufficiency.

He pointed out that large areas of Taiz province have the climate to cultivate coffee as an important crop for farmers and support the national economy, especially in view of its high prices on the global market.

The member of the Supreme Political Council Al-Sami’i stressed the need to strengthen partnership with youth and community initiatives and local organizations in order to expand coffee cultivation and motivate the community to uproot qat trees and replace them with coffee seedlings.

The coffee tree was considered a source of national income and a local product associated with Yemen’s civilization and history. “We have distributed more than forty thousand seedlings to the regions and villages of some districts to activate the agricultural renaissance and confront economic challenges and turn Yemen from a consumer country into a source of various agricultural crops.

For his part, the Director of the Agricultural Bureau of the Governorate Abdullah Al-Ganadi stated that the distribution of coffee seedlings in conjunction with the inauguration of the agricultural season is part of the activities of the Agricultural Bureau of the province for the current year to promote the agricultural sector in the province.

He stressed the importance of concerted efforts to achieve broad success in cultivating this important cash crop.

Source: Yemen News Agency