Ministry to support salt producers
Ministry to support salt producers
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has urged salt-producing provinces to support salt farmers and ensure a good harvest this year.
It also spelled out the measures they had to implement.
Local authorities had to help the farmers improve their salt fields and keep a close watch on weather changes and regularly apprise the farmers.
They should also help the farmers with acquiring and applying advanced technologies, and help them acquire more lands so that they can switch from manual to industrial production.
Localities should persuade industrial-salt production units to upgrade production and harvesting technologies to improve quality and meet the requirements of the chemical industry, reducing salt imports.
They had to especially focus on environmental protection in the salt production process, resolve difficulties faced by salt producers, and retain existing salt fields to ensure stable production.
They should get salt production and processing establishments to sign long-term contract for buying salt from farmers.
They should enable salt production and trading establishments and farmers to get cheap credit to carry on with their activities efficiently.
They should invest in improving the infrastructure for salt production.
Last year the country's total salt production area shrunk to 14,157ha from 14,500ha in 2011, while output was an estimated 807,000 tonnes.
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