Latakia - Sana
Within the framework of pushing the citrus marketing process, the government authorities have put in place several procedures, some of which started to be implemented on the ground.
The procedures started by Lattakia governorate through the control of the work of the captain and the adoption of a central committee to market the crop from all public authorities involved in the work of the Syrian Foundation for Trade within the market and rehabilitation and maintenance of squares within the market, especially the citrus square and the allocation of 30 trucks and prada cars in the service of shipping between the provinces For the mobilization of trucks that operate marketing will be in service from next Thursday.
Minister of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection Dr. Atef Al-Naddaf, during a tour of a number of sorting and packaging centers in Lattakia and meeting with relevant marketing and traders, pointed out that the government's focus is in the service of farmers and takes a direction related to the process of supporting internal marketing and a strategic direction to improve the marketing of the material in the long term through the adoption Technical specifications for packaging, which leads to the opening of new markets for the Syrian product.
Al-Naddaf stressed that the marketing process is currently taking place conveniently with the provision of mechanisms and fuel to transfer the material from the farms to the market and packaging centers and then to the provincial markets as desired by the farmers, pointing out to follow up the procedures to ensure the improvement of the marketing process and achieve the interest of farmers and the need to control the price difference between the wholesale and retail price Reflected on the peasants.
For his part, Governor Ibrahim Al-Salem pointed to the importance of government measures, which included the provision of machinery, fuel and facilities on the roads, pointing out that most of the items are marketed at good prices through sorting and packaging centers and without going through the market of Al Hail, while overcoming the difficulties in marketing the types of sastoma and clementina.
For his part, Eng. Ahmed Najem, Director of the Syrian Trade Establishment, said that the Foundation continues its daily efforts to market the material and transfer to the provinces and work to be marketing during this season better than previous years.
Chairman of the market committee Ghassan Khair pointed out that the quantities marketed through the market range from 500 to 700 tons per day, pointing to the presence of other similar quantities or more are marketed through sorting and packaging centers and through direct shopping from farms.
According to the bulletin of the market price of cardamom in Lattakia, the prices of citrus varies according to variety and quality as the price per kilogram of sastoma ranges between 65 and 115 Syrian pounds and Albomla from 100 pounds to 200 pounds and Mayer from 225 pounds to 250 and lemon from 275 to 325 pounds and Abu Sorra from 75 LBP to 135 LBP and Clementina from LBP 75 to LBP 175.