Aleppo-Sana
The agricultural sector in the governorate of Aleppo, in both its vegetable and animal sides, which was severely damaged by terrorism, led to the exit of large areas of land due to the sabotage of water traction networks and irrigation channels, especially in the eastern countryside, and the forced displacement of farmers from their lands gradually recovering.
Agriculture, which is an important and vital component of the national economy, started after the Syrian Arab Army restored security and stability to Aleppo three years ago, gradually recovering it with the return of the liberated areas of land for production, the rehabilitation of irrigation systems, and the return of farmers to work after providing production requirements.
Engineer Nabih Murad, Director of Aleppo Agriculture, explained in a statement to a SANA reporter that the areas planned for cultivation for the current season exceeded one million hectares and all crops such as wheat, barley, cotton, winter crops and vegetables in addition to fruit trees, the most important of which are olives, as the number of trees reached 23 million olive trees and a section of the olive presses returned to work after Rehabilitated and spread in the countryside and Manbej countryside.
Murad indicated that the return of security and stability to the eastern countryside contributed to the return of the farmers to their lands and their benefit from irrigation projects. Thus this year, an area of 60,000 hectares of irrigated land was prepared and cultivated. At the governorate level, the areas of rainfed and irrigated wheat cultivated amounted to 350,000 hectares in ten agricultural areas, indicating that the rainy season This year bodes well that the areas planted with wheat and barley exceeded 60 percent of the plan.
He stressed the importance of securing the production requirements of fertilizer, seeds and fuel for farmers and providing facilities for those who have lost the ownership of the land through conducting the physical examination and granting him the agricultural organization so that he can obtain the fertilizer through the bank and the seeds from the Seed Propagation Institution, and the 27 extension units that have been reinstated Rehabilitating it out of 104 units distributed throughout the governorate by providing technical guidelines related to the vegetable and animal sectors.
SANA's camera toured the nurseries of planting production of the Directorate and met Eng. Riad Naasan, head of the forestry department in the Directorate of Agriculture of Aleppo, who spoke about the process of producing forestry plants to be distributed to the areas that were destroyed by terrorism and afforestation of areas under the Ministry of Agriculture's plan, pointing out that this year's plan It involved the production of 300,000 implants, which were fully implemented, and the operations of the Lake Assad campus reforestation, rehabilitation of cultivated areas and replanting of them.
Engineer Mohamed Al Muhammad, head of the plant production department at the Directorate of Agriculture, talked about the production of fruit seedlings in the mini-nursery that was established in 2017 where the seeds of fruitful seedlings were cultivated and vaccinated and are now ready for sale to farmers where three inlaid varieties have been produced which are almonds, apricots and peaches and from each variety was produced Thousand seedlings, in addition to the production of figs and pomegranate seedlings, pointing out that this year’s plan included activating three agricultural centers for the production of the first seedlings in an intimate area, which started production, and now has 11,000 pomegranate plants, three thousand figs, a thousand blueberry plants, and a thousand mothers of grapevines, and the second in Deir Qaq, which has been activated as a ministry Mothers of the vineyard and the third in Kafr Anton in Tel Ajar to produce the vineyard. The plan will be implemented next year from the fruitful and grafted plantings in the center, within the limits of ten thousand fruit plants and from the mothers of the vine.
The agricultural observer, Khiero Bakeer, spoke about the forestry services that are provided in the nursery, which includes all parts of Aleppo governorate, including cypress, pine, Bangladeshi, and umbrella, by collecting seeds, planting them in bags and distributing them to farmers.
The liberation of the city of Aleppo and the defeat of terrorist organizations came three years ago, specifically on the twenty-second of December of 2016, an important step to thwart a project that was planned and implemented by regional and Gulf regimes revolving in the orbit of the entity of the Israeli enemy and putting itself at the service of the United States' plans to divide the region and consolidate the mechanisms of looting by The conflicts and wars of aggression carried out on their behalf by terrorist organizations made in the corridors of their intelligence services and supported them with money, weapons and mercenaries.
Qusay Razouk