Summer vegetable cultivation tops the peasants' interest in Al-Hasakah

Al-Hasakah-Sana

In recent years, farmers in al-Hasakah have given increasing importance to the cultivation of various summer vegetable varieties in agricultural lands with constant water resources, especially in the northern and northwestern regions, which contributed to their availability in local markets and the stability of their prices.

The decline in cotton production, which was the main crop for summer crops in the governorate for various reasons, in addition to the low cost of planting summer vegetables, good production, strong local drainage market and short production life, all of these reasons were an incentive to increase the demand of farmers to cultivate these crops and expand them to actually exceed the cultivated area. It is planned by the Directorate of Agriculture.

A farmer Aref Hamdan from the countryside of Tal Tamr explains to SANA reporter that the cultivation of summer vegetables from income-generating crops that make good profits, especially for those who abide by agricultural guidelines and spraying insecticides and monitor his crop permanently, which led many farmers in the region to expand its cultivation and investment of areas Which was grown with cotton to grow summer vegetables.

Hamdan pointed out that there is a strong local market to discharge the production of the region and the province in general, in addition to some traders to transfer part of the production to the rural provinces of Raqqa, Deir Ezzor and Aleppo, pointing out that many families due to the good financial returns resulting from the cultivation of summer vegetables shifted from traditional agriculture to the establishment of projects Large agricultural facilities used modern agricultural methods and drip irrigation.

The manager of agriculture, Rajab Salameh Bin, said that the cultivation of summer vegetables has become one of the basic crops for a large number of farmers in the province in recent years. These crops are concentrated in the cities and areas of وداAmudah, Darbasiyah, Ras al-Ain, Rural Hasaka and Qamishli. However, the farmers exceeded the plan in some varieties indicating that the province's production last year of various varieties exceeded 165 thousand tons.

For his part, Director of the Department of Plant Production in the Directorate of Agriculture, Eng.

Nizar Hassan

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