Damascus-Sana
From the agricultural lands of the provinces to the sales halls in Damascus, the Syrian car journey for daily trade to secure vegetables and fruits for citizens with high quality and competitive prices by breaking intermediate links and promoting the process of positive intervention in the markets.
Quantities of vegetables and fruits offered by the Foundation in its halls after direct marketing from the farmer, which contributed to the possibility of selling them at the wholesale price and thus reducing prices to citizens compared to their counterparts in the markets, according to the general supervisor of the centers (wholesale markets of cardamom in the governorates) affiliated to the institution, Eng. Wasim Maati.
In a statement to SANA’s delegate, Moati stated that Syrian cadres continue to trade with farmers and buy crops from them with immediate cash payment and secure transportation by the corporation. He encouraged many of them to sell their products directly to it and thus broke the mediation circles, indicating that the first leased materials were (tomatoes, eggplant and Barcelona) Expanded to extract other materials such as zucchini, Maltese beans, oranges (Plancia and Shamouti), capsicum, cabbage, flower, carrots, lemons and cucumbers.
All the previous steps are aimed primarily at controlling the cardamom market prices, according to Moati, explaining that the intervention in this way led to a reduction in prices in the stores inside and outside the cardamom market, for example, tomato material was secured by the Syrian earlier in its halls through direct import from farmers at a price of 650 Syrian pounds while it was sold in the market by 1000 liras, and after continuing to pump large quantities, merchants in the al-Hal market were forced to reduce them to 800 liras, and they are now within the Syrian showrooms sold for 500 liras.
The Syrian Trade Company was not satisfied with these steps, but is currently seeking to work to reduce the cost of other matters related to the process of securing vegetables and fruits, and thus their reflection on a greater reduction in prices, and among these new steps according to the provider of saving (cork boxes) from the institution to pack vegetables and fruits because the price of the fund increases the price of a kilo. Material in addition to the provision of manpower for the mobilization of materials and porterage by the institution in order to reach a minimum price break.
In Sana’s follow-up of the prices of the products rented within the Syrian Trade Showrooms today, the price of a kilo (first type) of each of the black eggplant materials reached 800 pounds, zucchini 800 pounds, Shamouti oranges, slices of 1,200 pounds, orange slices of plancia, slices of 1200 pounds, yellow lemons 1000, Maltese beans 2600, 550 carrots, and 175 cabbage. Lire.
While the price of their counterparts in the market was recorded for the first plastic tomato 700 liras, black Barcelona eggplant 900 liras, zucchini 1500, Shammati orange 1500, Valencia orange 1500, yellow lemon 1200, Maltese beans 3200, carrots 650 and cabbage 250 liras.
During Sana’s camera monitoring of the views of a number of citizens in the trade hall in Al-Adawi, Mahmoud al-Mustafa confirmed that the quality of the vegetables he bought is good and the prices are less than 30 to 40 percent of the markets, while Samir Diop pointed out that large quantities of vegetables and fruits are available in the hall where the customer chooses what he personally wants. Unlike private stores that are controlled by the seller.
From the Al-Majd Hall in Al-Qasaa, Fawzia Al-Ahmar pointed out the big difference that she noticed in the prices, as she bought tomatoes for 500 pounds, while she saw them in the market between 900 and 1,000 pounds, zucchini for 800 pounds, and in the market for 1,200 pounds.
As for the Western Trade Hall in Al-Qusour, Evian Abdullah and Rosette Double noted the low prices in the hall, the excellent handling of the workers, the good quality of the materials and their availability of various types, which drives most of the people of the region to buy from them.
Ali Ajeeb