By Omar Obeidat
AMMAN –– Military and civil consumer corporation retail outlets across the Kingdom will start selling sheep on Friday to meet local market needs during Eid Al Adha.
According to Wael Shqeirat, director general of the National Company for Food Security (NCFS), the company imported 25,000 heads of sheep from Romania and Sudan.
On Thursday, the NCFS started distributing the imported sheep to military and civil consumer corporation branches around the country, Shqeirat told The Jordan Times, adding that Romanian sheep will be sold at JD145 per head, while those imported from Sudan will cost JD140 each.
“The quantities of sheep imported by the company or other importers will be sufficient to meet local market needs,” he said, noting that the NCFS took this measure to bring stability to the local market in a bid to prevent unreasonable hikes in sheep prices.
Shqeirat indicated that around 15,000 sheep were imported from Romania and some 10,000 from Sudan, adding that military personnel can pay for the sheep in monthly installments.
In a statement issued yesterday, Civil Service Consumer Corporation Director Omar Neirat said the Eid Al Adha sheep will be sold in three branches in Amman, Irbid and Balqa, adding other governorates will be covered by the Military Consumer Corporation, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
The average weight of sheep from Romania will be around 40 kilograms, while the Sudanese sheep weigh approximately 38 kilograms, Petra quoted Neirat as saying.
12 November 2010
Source: The Jordan Times.
Link: http://jordantimes.com/?news=31781.
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