BEIRUT - According to Bank Byblos’s “Lebanon this week”, The UN’s food and agriculture Organization (FAO), in collaboration with the Agriculture Ministry, has launched 3 projects, for a total amount of $6m, to support the Lebanese agricultural sector.

The funding was pledged at the Stockholm conference held in August 2006 to rebuild Lebanon after the July 2006 war. Two projects have already started, the first involves the distribution of 200 pregnant cows and two tons of fodder with every cow to livestock farmers who suffered significant losses during the summer 2006 war. FAO will also hold training sessions to improve the animal production techniques. An other project entails the rehabilitation of the livelihoods of 1,600 horticulture farmers in 77 villages in the South through the installation of greenhouses for crop production as well as plant nurseries.