Hassan Industrial: Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Employ 400 Workers

28-May-2019

Statistics and figures of Jordan Industrial Cities Company show that there are more than ten industrial companies operating in El Hassan Industrial City in the field of pesticides, veterinary medicines and agricultural fertilizers.
 The total investments amount to approximately JD 36 million while providing 400 jobs in various professions and jobs It exports high quality products to various international markets. 
Al Hassan Industrial City was a platform for the start of Jordanian companies working in the field of pesticides, veterinary medicines and Jordanian agricultural fertilizers, which have made their way to the world through quality and conformity to international standards in the entry of various local, Arab and international markets. 

Al-Hassan Industrial City in Riyadh attracts Jordanian manpower in various fields of medical, veterinary, engineering, agricultural, chemical, etc., as well as the training and rehabilitation opportunities provided by the labs of these factories and companies to students of Jordanian universities near Al-Hassan Industrial City. 

Engineer Mohammed Aweys is an investor in this field. His company MEPEDCO is one of the largest companies working in this field in the city with a capital of about 20 million dinars and includes half of the workers working in this field. The veterinary industry is comparable to the human medicine industry. Approximately 1000 workers. 

Awaid said that the success achieved by MEPEDCO was reflected in the new job opportunities in this field, which were found by qualified Jordanian youth in various medical and agricultural specialties, as well as training and qualification opportunities in the company's laboratories, which are the latest in this field. Today, MEPEDCO is a Jordanian success story that has reached 40 countries around the world and is able to keep abreast of developments and developments in the agrochemical industry and public health pesticides. 

Aweys pays tribute to the Jordanian investment environment, especially in Al Hassan Industrial City, which enabled MEPEDCO to launch into the world, such as exemptions and incentives, which formed a kind of support to start from a young company to the opening of new branches and production lines within the city. Today it has a factory in Saudi Arabia and another in Syria. 

Like other industrialists, Aweys calls for more support to industrialists in the current circumstances to maintain the existing industries in general and the industry of veterinary medicines and fertilizers in general, pointing out that the increase in production costs affected the competition in addition to reviewing the international conventions that the private sector did not achieve any benefit In addition to protecting the Jordanian product and intensifying control efforts. 

On the other hand, Aweys calls for helping industrial companies to achieve integration among industrial companies by exchanging raw materials in addition to increasing the period granted in annual licenses and informing the official authorities of these procedures such as customs, agriculture and others. It is worth mentioning that the number of industrial companies operating in Al Hassan Industrial City in various industrial fields reached 1508 industrial companies at the end of last year, Thousand jobs.









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