At a cost of 334 million pounds ... the rehabilitation of the main irrigation canal began in the northern Homs countryside

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The Directorate of Water Resources in Homs started the rehabilitation of the main irrigation canal in the northern countryside, at a cost of 334 million Syrian pounds.

Engineer Ismail Ismail, director of water resources in Homs, said in a statement to correspondent with SANA that the Directorate started rehabilitating the main channel in the northern countryside of the governorate according to the contract signed with the General Company for Water Projects at a cost of 334 million Syrian pounds and the duration of completion of six months.

Ismail indicated that the secondary sub-channels of the main channel have also been rehabilitated in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), to be implemented within four months.

Ismail explained the importance of rehabilitating the network, as it will irrigate agricultural lands in the northern countryside with an area of ​​11,000 hectares, which constitutes a food basket for the province of Homs, through which farmers can invest their lands in an optimal manner, thus improving their standard of living and economic, pointing out that the number of villages benefiting from it is about twenty villages.

It is noteworthy that the main source of this network is Qattina Lake, where the actual volume of storage has so far reached 176 million cubic meters.

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