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Latakia Agriculture: 4,500 tons of olives and 17,000 tons of citrus were damaged

2020-10-15T14:16:05.119Z


Lattakia-SANA The Lattakia Agriculture Directorate has completed the inventory of agricultural land damage due to the fires


Latakia - Sana

The Lattakia Agriculture Directorate has completed the process of counting the damage to agricultural lands as a result of the fires that occurred in the governorate last Friday and Saturday.

The Director of Agriculture, Engineer Munther Khairbek, stated to the SANA reporter that the number of those affected by the fires reached 13644 farmers, while 4,500 tons of olives and 17,000 tons of citruses were damaged, while the number of burnt dead citrus trees reached 201,802 trees, 1135609 olive trees, 3157 trees and 44,795 trees of other types of Fruit, indicating that the total number of affected trees amounted to one million and 300 thousand trees.

On the losses in the livestock sector, Khair Bey explained that 65 heads of cows died in the fire out of the entire herd in the governorate, amounting to 39 thousand heads, while 6799 beehives out of 80 thousand hives died, as well as many generators, sprinklers, agricultural numbers and irrigation networks, which are fully recorded. Pointing out that the accuracy of the statistics carried out by the agriculture exceeds 95 percent and left the field open to farmers who were unable to communicate with the extension units or who technicians could not reach until next Sunday to review the extension units to issue another appendix to correct the data.

Khair Bey pointed out that the affected area amounted to 7190 hectares, which constitutes only 9 percent of the percentage of fruitful trees at the governorate level, and the number of damaged trees is between dead and cut down 1455623 and constitutes 6.6 percent of the number of trees in the governorate, which are 22 million and 150 thousand trees.

He called on all farmers to wait further before taking any action regarding their burnt farms before consulting technicians at the Agriculture Directorate, which launched scientific dialogue seminars in cooperation with the university and agricultural scientific research related to burnt trees that may return to growth again if the burns were not of the first degree and with more care. Pruning and grafting return within short years to the production process as it was, and therefore it should not be uprooted before the consultation, pointing out that the inventory of the damage to the forested lands has not been completed yet.

Firas Zarda

Source: sena

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