The popular markets in Tartous: the materials and goods from the product to the consumer

Tartus-Sana

The popular markets in Tartous give consumers the opportunity to obtain food, vegetables and fruits directly from the product and enable farmers and producers to display and sell their products at competitive prices away from the brokerage, merchant and monopoly rings.

Judge of Tartous City Council Judge Muhammad Zain Bin told correspondent SANA that two parks in the city were allocated to the popular markets in the Al Baraniya neighborhood, opposite the Children's Hospital and the Ghamkha neighborhood on Al Nuzha Street, and to provide them with private kiosks and secure their infrastructure in cooperation with the Tartus Chamber of Commerce and Industry, noting that the display of products was in coordination with the Chamber The Peasants Union and the Directorate of Industry, where each market includes 15 stalls.

The farmer Ali Al-Saleh, a resident of Al-Shatboush village in Al-Draikish countryside, confirmed that he carried almost daily his agricultural products produced by his small field next to his house to sell in the popular market at Nahr Al-Ghamma site.

Al-Saleh, who used to deliver these products to traders in the Al-Hal market in the city, decided to take advantage of the opportunity to sell directly through the market, explaining that he sells his products such as capsicum, cucumber, tomatoes, beans, etc. at the cost price.

Yasser Mohamed, owner of a workshop for the manufacture of dairy and cheese in the village of Al-Muntar, participates in the market by selling the products of his own workshop, indicating that he collects milk from cows farmers in the village, converts it to various derivatives in his workshop, and sells it in the market at reduced prices from the regular markets at a value ranging between 50 and 100 pounds per kilogram of milk or Labneh or cheese.

The Commission of Cardamom Traders in Tartous indicated that it contributes to the initiative by providing the market with agricultural products at cost price as confirmed by Nazih Mansour, a member of the committee stating that daily the market is provided with about 5 tons of various vegetables such as tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, beans, etc. with the aim of making the market experience successful and enabling the citizen to obtain On vegetables at a cost price, as the committee bears transportation costs and dispense with the profits of the 15 percent it was getting from farmers in exchange for marketing their produce.

The market was an important opportunity for Ms. Umm Ward, from the neighborhood of Al-Areed, to shop at the cheapest prices, as she confirmed that she was visiting the market to obtain products at reduced prices.

Gram Mohammed