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Agriculture Situation:
The District of Qalqilia depends to a great extent on agriculture, so the Chamber of commerce helped in settling agricultural roads, repairing water wells, accrediting certificate of origin for exported products, which were exposed to a hard quake as a result of the Gulf War. Farmers started looking for new and alternative markets, the Arab Israeli markets.
The needs of Qalqilia district for agriculture situation are as follows:
- Establishing, paving and enlarging agricultural roads.
- Establishing factories to take advantage of what exceeds the needs such as dairy, juice and tins.
- Establishing a Palestinian national company specialized in marketing the products at local and international levels and solving the problems, which prevent the export process.
- Establishing a National Insurance credit to support farmers and set a minimum price limit for the agricultural products and compensate their loss.
- Establishing an agricultural bank without interests to develop farming and attracting new projects.
- Economic protection system against unfair and unequal competition with Israeli products.
- Reopening and supporting citrus fruit waxing factory, which was closed as a result of the Israeli competition.
- Helping in boring new wells of water and repairing existent ones.
- Preventing Israeli Authorities from land confiscation so as to enlarge their settlements and establishing winding (By-Pass) roads, which threaten of confiscating thousands of donums from the Western side.
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