Damascus-Sana
Citrus growers are eagerly awaiting the results of the directives and actions taken by the concerned authorities to support the marketing of their crops in light of high productivity indicators looking for markets for their disposal.
Engineer Suhail Hamdan, director of the citrus office at the Ministry of Agriculture, said in a statement to SANA Economic Bulletin that the project of rehabilitation of citrus cultivation and establishment of the Syrian citrus industry, which began work includes comprehensive electronic documentation of citrus fields and the establishment of an electronic database covering everything related to the cultivation of citrus Harvesting and marketing at the level of one farm and the granting of a fixed digital code for each farm reliable marketing and export operations.
Hamdan explained that the project includes the processing of three laboratories, the first to analyze the quality of fruits and determine the specifications of Syrian citrus in terms of form and composition and adoption locally and globally and the second specialized in the production of citrus mothers planting reliable and disease-free, in addition to a laboratory specialized program integrated citrus pest focuses on the use of biological control The main objective of the project is to ensure the stability of citrus cultivation and development by documenting its specifications and spreading globally, opening new markets, overcoming marketing problems and reducing production costs.
On the preliminary estimates of production, Hamdan said that the amount of production is close to the last season, which exceeds one million tons, of which more than 200 thousand tons in Tartous and about 800 thousand tons in Lattakia distributed among the varieties of orange, tangerine, lemon and Indian lemon and orange constitutes more than 60 percent of production.
Hamdan stressed the need to provide export requirements for global markets, especially the establishment of sorting and packaging workshops that adopt electronic sorting or optical, which ensures the sorting of fruits by color and size and ensures that they are free from pests or bruises that can not be observed by the human eye.
Hamdan adds that the other problem suffered by the crop is the lack of juice factories in the Syrian coast consumes part of the production, especially of the lower quality species.
Nadim Mualla
SANA Economic Bulletin
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