Hummus-Sana
The value of sales of the Homs Feed Branch of various fodder materials reached two billion and 788 million pounds during the past year.
Engineer Ziyad Al-Youssef, the branch manager, stated in a statement to the SANA Economic Bulletin that more than 26 thousand tons of bran, 7,692 tons of yellow corn, 2154 tons of shelled material, 352 tons of barley, 2039 tons of ready-made groats, and 2039 tons of ready-made were sold. A capsule referring to the opening of a new fodder cycle for livestock breeders that will last until the end of February, and includes the distribution of 4 kg bran, 7 kg barley, 1 kg corn for one head of sheep, 75 kg ready, a capsule, 3 kg cassava, and 2 kg barley for the head of cows while 0,250 was allocated. Kg of bran and the same amount of barley for one bird of poultry.
On the prices of fodder materials, Youssef explains that the prices are competitive and less than the market price by about 50 percent. The price of one ton of bran is about 44 thousand pounds, the amount of cotton is 190 thousand pounds, ready for groats, 91 thousand pounds, and yellow corn 118 thousand pounds, and ready for a capsule 99 thousand pounds.
With regard to the institution's plan to secure feed materials for breeders between Al-Youssef, maintenance and adjustment has been made for the capsule production department in the first line in Al-Waar Feed Factory so that the production capacity increases from about 3 tons per hour to about 10 tons per hour, indicating that electrical maintenance work for the second line is nearing On completion, the electrical departments are currently being piloted, and immediately after that the experiments for mechanical departments will be started and the line will be restarted during the coming period of the current year.
The number of livestock that benefited from forage feedstuffs during the past year, according to the 2017 statistics, is one million and 140 thousand head of sheep, 60 thousand head of cows, more than 81 thousand head of goats and 3,822 head of camels.
Abdul Hamid Junaidi
