{"id":18235,"date":"2025-12-12T22:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=18235"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:46:32","slug":"agricultural-seeds-law-approved-in-somaliland-to-boost-local-production-and-self-sufficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2025\/12\/12\/agricultural-seeds-law-approved-in-somaliland-to-boost-local-production-and-self-sufficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200b&#8221;Agricultural seeds law&#8221; approved in Somaliland to boost local production and self-sufficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u200bHARGEISA &#8212;<\/strong> The Council of Ministers in Somaliland has approved the Agricultural Seeds Law, a strategic move aimed at regulating the agricultural sector and developing local production to enhance the food security system in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the &#8220;Mogadishu Press&#8221; news platform, the approval of the law took place during a cabinet meeting chaired by Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi. The Minister of Agricultural Development, Mohamud Egeh Yusuf, presented the objectives of the new legislation, which focuses on regulating local seed production and ensuring quality according to modern technical standards to improve crop efficiency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u200bReports from &#8220;Mogadishu Press&#8221; indicated that the law was passed unanimously by 36 votes. Council members emphasized the importance of having legislative frameworks that address current economic challenges and reduce reliance on imported seeds, which serves as a fundamental pillar in comprehensive economic development plans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Mogadishu Press&#8221; further noted that this law is the eighth in a series of legislations adopted by the current administration to develop institutions and productive sectors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This legislative action is part of Somaliland&#8217;s efforts to restructure the local economy and provide an attractive investment environment in the agricultural sector based on self-reliance and high-quality agricultural inputs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bHARGEISA &#8212; The Council of Ministers in Somaliland has approved the Agricultural Seeds Law, a strategic move aimed at regulating the agricultural sector and developing local production to enhance the food security system in the region. According to the &#8220;Mogadishu Press&#8221; news platform, the approval of the law took place during a cabinet meeting chaired &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-food-security-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18239,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235\/revisions\/18239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}