Arab bread loaf celebrated in Taiz [Archives:2006/965/Local News]
TAIZ, July 19 ) In collaboration with the Yemeni General Authority for Standards and Specifications (GASS), the Food Research and Post-harvest Technology Center, supported by Hayal Saeed Anam group, set up a symposium, timed with Arab bread loaf day, on July 16, in Taiz.
The participants, affiliated to private and public sectors, assured the importance of ensuring food security, increasing agricultural production and improving quality to serve the Yemeni consumers.
They further called upon the local and supplying control authorities, GASS, to exert power over producers who do not abide to the cabinet's resolution, relative to loaf specification, production and price. Additionally, they said that they are in favor of fair prices that please the consumers and producers, but they maintain the importance of specifying certain weight and size limitations for the loaf.
During the second session of the symposium, a number of papers were presented. Dr. Asmail Muharam, in his paper, addressed the effect of Qat plantation on cereal production. In his presented paper, Dr. Ali Khamis Ba-Saba'a dealt with increasing wheat production in Yemen: the reality, hurdles and aspects of increasing the production. Other papers aiming to improve the quality of wheat and flour were presented by Dr. Jalal Ahmed Faqirah, Dr. Abdulhamid Sakran, Abdullah Ahmed Obadi, Jamal Mohammed Abdulrahman and Hamoud Al-Boukhity.
The symposium came up with the following recommendations:
– Taking interest in storage and grinding techniques, in addition to manufacturing wheat products and extending their validity.
– Making legislations to standardize bread making, based on complex flour techniques and research at the local level in order to minimize the dependence upon imported wheat.
– Creating sustainable awareness, making use of different forms of mass media to raise consumer awareness.
– Issuing required legislations concerning the production of wheat bran in certain proportions to make different types of bran wheat.
– Participants recommend GASS to issue a regulating legislation concerning the production of bran-added wheat, according to the cabinet's resolution concerning the addition of bran to the wheat industry.
– Participants also recommend GASS and the Ministry of Industry and Trade to impose Yemeni specifications on wheat and flour to ensure the protection of the consumer.
– Forming a committee to follow the execution of these recommendations, including the General Authority for Agricultural Researches, the Food Researches and Post-harvest Technology Center, GASS and the Hayal Sa'eed Anam group of companies.
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