Al-Hasakah-SANA
The areas planted with wheat and barley, both irrigated and rainfed, in Al-Hasakah Governorate amounted to more than 509,000 hectares in various areas of agricultural stability.
The head of the Plant Production Department in the Directorate of Agriculture in Al-Hasakah, Engineer Jalal Bilal, said in a statement to SANA reporter that the areas planted with wheat and barley crops were distributed over 86,200 hectares of irrigated wheat, with a rate of implementation of 78 percent of the agricultural plan, and rain-fed wheat 216,300 hectares, with an implementation rate of 49 percent, and irrigated barley 12 1,950 hectares with an implementation rate of 62 percent, and rainfed barley 193,700 hectares with an implementation rate of 48 percent.
Bilal explained that the cultivation of wheat and barley crops, which began last October, will continue until the end of this month, explaining that the rains in the governorate during the past two days are the first rainfall that the crops benefit from in terms of the good rate of precipitation.
Bilal pointed out that good rainfall encourages farmers to continue planting their lands with these two crops, especially rainfed areas, in light of weather forecasts indicating that the governorate will continue to be affected by rainy weather events in the near future, which contributes to improving the germination of irrigated and rainfed areas.
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