(ACSAD) provides 100 million liras to help farmers affected by the recent fires in the coastal and central regions

Damascus-Sana

The Arab Center for Studies of Arid Zones and Arid Lands ACSAD announced the provision of direct support in the amount of one hundred million Syrian pounds, in addition to some technical and logistical assistance to farmers and breeders affected by the fires that broke out in the coastal and central regions recently, with the aim of mitigating the effects of these fires.

The Director General of the Center, Dr. Nasreddin Al-Obaid, said in a statement to SANA that the center is ready to cooperate with the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform to reduce as much as possible the negative repercussions of the fires and revive the affected areas by providing plantings and seedlings of fruit and forest trees and pastoral seeds and providing the necessary assistance to the affected farmers to replant their areas And invest it again.

According to Al-Ubaid, the aid included providing 50 thousand olive seedlings and contributing to locating fire lines in the affected sites and determining the sites for establishing mountain lakes to be used in extinguishing fires, in addition to contributing to the rehabilitation of mountainous lands degraded by fires by monitoring and determining their sites and calculating their areas by using pictures Satellites and the preparation of objective maps for these lands before and after the fire, in addition to applying measures to rehabilitate degraded lands from soil conservation and restore natural and cultivated vegetation cover.

Al-Obaid indicated that ACSAD will conduct a number of training courses at his expense on methods of planting and caring for olive trees, and to contribute to providing technical expertise in the field of caring for and developing forests and protecting them from fires.

Bushra Barhoum-Ghossoub Abboud