The Minister of Agriculture in the caretaker government, Abbas Al-Hajj Hassan, departed from the Jordanian capital, Amman, accompanied by Jordanian Minister of Agriculture Khaled Al-Hunifat and Palestinian Minister of Agriculture Rizq Salimiyah, as well as the Director-General of the Arab Center for Studies of Dry Areas and Dry Lands (commonly known as "ACSAD") Nasr Al-Din Al-Obeid, to travel to Riyadh to participate in two agricultural conferences organized by ACSAD and the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development.