WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/AG/N/OMN/11 
6 July 2012 
 (12-3614) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
  The following submission, dated 24 May 2012, is being circulated at the request of the Delegation of Oman .  The notification concerns domestic support commitments ( Table DS:1  and the 
relevant Supporting Tables) for the year 2011 . 
 
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 The only agricultural domestic support measures ap plied by Oman in 2011 are those listed in 
the attached Supporting Tables DS:1 and DS:2. 
  
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Page 2 Supporting Table DS:1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Oman 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  2011 
 
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment – "Green Box" 
 
Measure type Name and description of meas ure with reference to criteria in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure in year 
in question 
(Rials Omani) Data sources 
1 2 3 4 
General services  (a) Agricultural research (plant and livestock)    
 Agricultural research centres and stations requirements  1,407,800 Ministry of Agriculture 
 Animal wealth research  support and facilities  599,558 
 Sub-total 2,007,358  
 (b) Pest and disease control    
 National vaccination a nd treatment 366,080 " 
 Plant protection, aerial spray works, locust control and safe use of pesticide 1,328,289 
 Sub-total 1,694,369  
 (c) Training services   
 Omani cadres training 119,717 " 
 Sub-total 119,717  
 (d) Extension and advisory services    
 Farmers encouragement and agricultural extension services project  3,973,472 " 
 Farmers encouragement and livestock extension services  project 1,148,453 
 Improve the extension services  for development media 22,667 
 Update and improve the agricultura l statistics data system 82,337 
 Sub-total 5,226,929   
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 Page 3Measure type Name and description of meas ure with reference to criteria in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure in year 
in question 
(Rials Omani) Data sources 
1 2 3 4 
 (e) Infrastructure    
 Establishment and developm ent of agricultural and veterinarian quarantine1 591,174 Ministry of Agriculture 
 Development of natural pastures2 177,585  
 Sub-total 768,759  
 Total 9,817,132  
 
1 The amount spent in this item includes es tablishment of the quarantin e buildings and purchasing of  equipment and does not incl ude the cost of quarantine services. 
2 This is an infrastructure project associated with environmen tal programmes to develop and maintain natural pastures on governm ent land.  
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Page 4 Supporting Table DS:2 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Oman 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  2011 
 
Measures exempt from the reduction comm itment – Special and Diffe rential Treatment – "D evelopment Programmes" 
 
Measure type Name and description of measure with reference to criteria in Article 6.2 Monetary value of 
measure in year in 
question 
(Rials Omani)Data sources 
1 2 3 4 
Investment subsidies generally 
available to agriculture Soft loan subsidies to agriculture  and livestock projects:  these soft loan facilities are granted 
to economically viable projects to enc ourage entrepreneurship in the sector.1 1,741,000 Oman Development Bank 
and Ministry of Agriculture 
 Sub-total 1,741,000  
Other National project for da te palm development 69,811 Ministry of Agriculture 
 Protection of agriculture lands from sweeping away project 102,457 
 Sub-total  172,268  
 Total 1,913,268  
 
1 The investor/promoter of the project will only pay 3 per cent in terest on the total amount of loan sanctioned for the respectiv e project.  The balance between the prevailing market interest 
rate (9 per cent) and the soft loan interest charged to the farm er (3 per cent) would be paid by  the Government. The monetary v alue of RO 1,741,000 is equiva lent to the 6 per cent balance 
on the total amount of loan sanctioned to al l the agricultural and livestock projects. 
 
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