Ammon News - AMMAN (Petra) – Agriculture Minister Akef Al Zu'bi called for boosting agricultural ties with Lebanon in the interest of both the countries.

At a meeting with his Lebanese counterpart Hussein Al Haj Hassan on the sidelines of a regional conference on animal health held in Amman, the two officials discussed impediments in the exchange of agricultural goods between the two countries, mutual export and import and the impact of the Syrian crisis on both Jordan and Lebanon.

They also reviewed means to activate a Memorandum of Understanding signed last year to facilitate the flow of agricultural goods between the two countries and increase cooperation and coordination in the agricultural field.