Damascus-SANA
The Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform received twenty dual-purpose choppers used to crush grain and chop vegetable waste, funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development “IFAD”, to be distributed during the coming period to a number of governorates.
The director of the Livestock Development Project at the Ministry of Agriculture, Eng. Muhammad Hassan Akko, said in a statement to SANA that the procedures for obtaining 40 new choppers funded by “dispatch” will be completed during the current year.
Regarding the advantages of these shredders, Akko indicated that they chop agricultural waste to produce animal feed or for the compost industry, and their production capacity reaches a minimum of 250 kilograms per hour, in addition to containing sieves with different holes that can be replaced according to the type of grain to be crushed.
Akko pointed out that these choppers will serve livestock breeders, under the supervision and follow-up of the local community committees formed in the targeted villages within the work of the Livestock Development Project.
For his part, Dr. Ihab Abu Turabi, a teacher at the Department of Animal Production at the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering at Damascus University, pointed out the importance of supporting livestock breeders, by focusing on securing the food needs of their herds of fodder.
And he indicated that choppers are a good way to prepare the fodder from plant waste surplus to the needs of farmers, and provide a special food item when fermenting it and adding improvers to raise its nutritional value such as energy and protein sources, which contributes to saving the imported ones and the costs of breeding and lowers the prices of products.
For his part, Director General of the General Establishment for Fodder Abdul Karim Shabat explained that the tendency to reduce the import bill for the rest of the fodder species depends primarily on the availability of large quantities of green crop residues, which can cover an important part of the needs of livestock.
Shabat pointed out the importance of increasing the number of choppers for plant residues, in addition to setting up small dryers to ferment and store surplus green fodder.
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