Al-Hasakah-Sana
One of the projects aiming to help the people of Al-Hasakah Governorate to improve their livelihoods and provide work opportunities for them that are compatible with the nature of their rural life and enable them to possess the nucleus of small projects that can be developed and expanded by the efforts of future beneficiaries.
The project, whose activities were launched by the Charity and Righteous Association in Ras Al-Ain during last September, is funded by the World Food Program and under the direct supervision of the Agricultural Directorate in the governorate. In its first phase, it targets 500 families in the rural areas of Ras Al-Ain, Tal Tamr, and Hasaka. In its second phase, 1000 families in the vicinity of Hasaka Tal Barak and Al-Arisha areas, by providing the beneficiaries with seed, plant seedlings and irrigation and drip networks.
The project manager, Juma Azi, stated in a statement to a Sana correspondent that the first stage of the project targets 300 families for the people in Ras Al-Ain, 100 in Tel Tamr, and 100 in Al-Hasakah, where all its properties and lettuce occur for planting 100 square meters for each variety, except for peas for which an area of 200 square meters is allocated.
And Azi indicated that the second stage of the project includes summer crops, and 1000 families benefit from them, distributed between the countryside of Hasaka, Tal Tamr, Tal Barak and Al-Arisha, and they are targeted by providing the drip net, seeds and seedlings of crops, "tomatoes, eggplant, cucumber and molokhia", to plant 100 square meters for each crop except for Mallowiya with an area of 200 square meters.
Engineer Salama pointed out that the directorate has allocated committees to follow up and supervise these projects, whose mission is to help the beneficiaries and provide them with advisory advice since the beginning of the cultivation process and through the operations of tillage, watering, control and fertilization, until the harvest, explaining the importance of these projects that provided a food source for the people of the targeted areas and at the same time improved their conditions Finance by selling surplus production in neighboring markets.
A number of beneficiaries from the people of the countryside of Hasaka and Tel Tamr stressed the importance of the project, which contributed to achieving food sufficiency for them in terms of cultivated crops and helped them to improve their financial conditions by selling surplus production periodically in the markets, calling for the launch of agricultural projects to construct greenhouses and grow crops and winter vegetables that supply from Outside the province at the present time, especially tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini and pepper, to secure the need for the preservation of these materials and contribute to reducing their prices.
Nizar Hassan
