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Regie supports local development projects and start receiving Batroon harvest

6-12-2016

As part of the development strategy announced by La Regie Libanaise des Tabacs et Tombacs on its 80th anniversary last May, the head of the state-run institution, Engineer Nassif Siqlawi, handed financial contributions to 8 municipalities allocated for development projects. To name some of these projects: asphalt paving of a road in the Beqaa town of Hadath Baalbek; installation of irrigation canal systems in Btid’I, Beqaa; drilling of groundwater wells in Deir Qanun el Nahr, Tyre in the South; asphalt paving of the road of Batuliyeh, Tyre; building of an agricultural road in the town of Majdal Zoon, Tyre; construction of an electric ladder and road lightings in the Shuf town of Majdel Ma3ush; building a social hall in Gozalieh town, Akkar and the building and rehabilitation of agricultural roads in Yuhmor town, Shaqif. Meanwhile, the Regie has received the tobacco supplies from Batroon farmers (at LBP 12 thousand per kg). In the same vein, Siqlawi discussed with Akkar MP Hadi Hbeish and a delegation of Akkar mayors the conditions of tobacco cultivation in the northern district and challenges crop growers face. To note, the Regie has received in one month record time the complete harvest season of the Akkar tobacco. (Al Diyar, An Nahar, Al Mustaqbal, December 3, 2016)
 

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