Almotamar.net - Yemen's Prime Minister Dr Ali Mahmoud Mujawar said Thursday his government is seeking to effect many treatments for supporting wheat production through Agricultural and Fish Encouragement Fund, providing improved seeds and mechanization, providing harvesters for farmers who desire to adopt large-scale wheat production.

The prime minister added the government would encourage all farmers to head for plantation of wheat as it is a strategic commodity through which to achieve part of self-sufficiency because of the limited water resources.

Mr Mujawar said Al-Jawf, Marib, Baihan Valley and Hadramout Valley would be allocated to wheat agriculture with the hope of achieving self-sufficiency at 30% of the local consumption. He added that the economic side and drop in oil production are among prominent challenges facing the government, wishing the restoration of oil production capacity by the beginning of 2010 because of its effect on the state revenues and spending on investment fields.

The prime minister affirmed in an interview published Thursday by 26 September newspaper that the economic establishment managed to create a kind of stability in wheat and flour prices by virtue of directives of the president to the government for activating importation of large quantities of wheat and flour and approval of the government intervention of the economic establishment through importing wheat indicating that the government seeks to expand the process of supply of this commodity in the coming days in order to guarantee relative stability in prices.