Pre-planting prices are a production tool to influence farmers' decisions. But the government has been dithering on this. So farmers have tended to shift to uncontrolled commodities such as horticulture.

It is much better for environmental protection and efficiency of vehicles. It (unleaded fuel) is of a higher quality and would increase efficiency of our machinery.

The Finance minister said that the price controls are going to be removed. We still await the implementation.

We do not want anything that would in itself be a price control. The way the rate has been going up the past month has been subject to questions. It has been going up by 1 % irrespective of supply and demand and that creates problems and says there is manipulation somewhere.

I do not have influence on the government of Dubai.

It is better to participate in government with the strength we have than to be without influence in opposition. Let's do it, ... What we have here is not a program of market radicalism and it is not a populist one.