Daraa-Sana
The livestock sector in Daraa is witnessing a gradual recovery, which is evident with the return of breeders to practice their work and increase production of milk, meat and eggs.
The Director of Daraa Agriculture, Engineer Abdel-Fattah Al-Rahal, stated in a statement to the SANA Economic Bulletin that the number of cows in Daraa reaches 40707 heads that annually produce 36 thousand tons of milk and 9.2 thousand tons of meat, explaining that the number of sheep and goats reaches 805 thousand heads that produce about 22 thousand tons Of milk and about 7 thousand tons of meat annually.
He added: In Daraa governorate, there are about 573 broiler farms that produce about 3.25 million birds per cycle, and about 85 domesticated poultry for layer chickens and mothers, with a total number of 1.070 million birds, annually producing 14 thousand tons of white meat and 93 million eggs.
Breeders suffer from the high costs of care, especially in the field of feed and veterinary medicines, stressing the importance of increasing feed allocations per head within the fodder cycles that open successively in the branches of the General Fodder Corporation.
Hayel al-Mutab, one of the breeders, stated that the vaccinations provided by government departments contribute to reducing some of the breeding costs, but the farmers ’suffering is reflected in the lack of feed, insufficiency of the distributed feed standard and its high price in the market.
For his part, the head of the animal health department in the Directorate of Agriculture, Dr. Atef Al-Asimi, explained that the livestock department in the directorate has a vaccination program for livestock throughout the year, where the vaccine is delivered to the extension units and veterinary centers in it indicating that the vaccination program
Free and treats foot and mouth disease, smallpox, entroxemia, brucellosis, and others.
In the governorate of Daraa, there are 18 veterinary clinics in service, 5 veterinary drug laboratories, and 11 veterinary services offices.
Qasim Al-Miqdad
Sana Economic Company