As-Suwayda-Sana
The National Family Farming Project in As-Suwayda has targeted about 2500 families within 47 villages by providing seed and summer and winter vegetable crops.
Eng. Ayham Hamid, the Director of Agriculture in Suwaida, said in a statement to the Sana Economic Bulletin that the project aims to achieve self-sufficiency of vegetables and their processed food products and to secure an income for the rural family by selling surplus agricultural and home-made products in addition to providing a clean healthy product.
Hamed pointed out that the target villages in the project were chosen according to certain criteria, including the availability of a source of irrigation and the suitability of their lands for agricultural investment and proximity to each other to facilitate follow-up and marketing of products and the dissemination of family agricultural culture in addition to being one of the poorest or affected villages from the crisis with access to them indicating that priority is given to families The poorest, especially the families of martyrs and the wounded, or those headed by women.
Hamed pointed out that the project includes granting drip irrigation networks and summer vegetable seed for tomato, eggplant, zucchini, cucumber, and winter vegetable seed for beans, peas, spinach, radish and lettuce in addition to implementing practical data and training the beneficiaries to follow up the agricultural work and training them in the household food manufacturing process for the agricultural produce produced indicating that the desired goals of The project has been achieved in ratios between 90 to 95 percent, which confirms the necessity of increasing the number of families benefiting from it and increasing the investment of areas adjacent to the house with other types of vegetables and medicinal plants and expanding the project to include raising domestic chickens and Ghannam, goats, bees and linking small units manufacturing.
For its part, Abu Khair's chant from Qanawat revealed that she invested the land adjacent to her house on an area of 600 meters to grow various types of vegetables, as she achieved self-sufficiency and sold surplus amounts of production.
Inaam Al-Salman from Bard village explained that the experience of the national project for family farming is good and benefited from it, but it needs to be developed in the coming period by increasing the lengths of Muslim irrigation networks and the quantities of seeds, especially since the majority of the rural people depend on agriculture for their livelihood.
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SANA Economic Bulletin
