The opening of a market for rural women's products and the afforestation campaign in Daraa .. Minister of Agriculture: Diagnosing the problems faced by the agricultural sector

Daraa-Sana

In the city of Daraa, a market for rural women's products opened today, which includes a wide variety of Al-Hourani House supplies.

The Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Eng. Muhammad Hassan Qatna, told reporters on the sidelines of the market’s opening to work on launching the agricultural sector development forum entitled “Challenges and Opportunities”, stressing that the forum will work on diagnosing all the problems that the agricultural sector suffers from and will develop visions and policies emanating from committees and working groups. In order to develop the course of agricultural work for the next ten years.

Minister Qatana also examined a laboratory for veterinary medicines in Manshiyat al-Sabil in the countryside, which produces about 180 medicinal varieties and displays some of the modern mechanisms used in cultivation and harvesting.

During a meeting with stakeholders in the agricultural sector in the government complex, the Minister of Agriculture listened to a presentation on the reality of agricultural production, production requirements, and problems facing the development of agricultural work.

Attendees' interventions focused on reconsidering the criteria for preparing the agricultural plan and the manual for classifying agricultural lands, addressing the reality of violating wells, providing veterinary care supplies and fodder for livestock in sufficient quantities, increasing agricultural support, providing sufficient quantities of fuel and fertilizer, including the lands of the Yarmouk Basin within the agricultural plan, introducing new crops to the governorate, and reducing the prices of seeds. Potato within the Seed Multiplication Foundation.

The meeting participants called for the establishment of a central halal market equipped with work requirements, a slaughterhouse for poultry and the rest of the livestock, a laboratory for analyzing materials imported from abroad at border centers, replacing exposed irrigation channels with a tube, rehabilitating irrigation projects that were sabotaged by terrorism, settling the conditions of unlicensed poultry, and reactivating the consortium in Muzayrib.

In addition, Minister Qatana participated in an afforestation campaign carried out by the youth and student units in Daraa within the women's vocational secondary school and the two private universities of Yarmouk and Qasiyyon, at the entrance to one of the military formations in the vicinity of the city.

The Director of Agriculture in Daraa, Eng. Abdel-Fattah Al-Rahal, indicated that afforestation campaigns will continue until the end of next March, indicating that afforestation operations are carried out in cooperation with organizations and unions to give aesthetics to schools and universities and the entrances of cities and towns.

Student Moaz Al-Awad from the Faculty of Pharmacy at Qassioun University considered that planting a tree betrays the students' awareness and the responsibility entrusted to them.

A member of the Syrian Arab Army, Hamid Al-Youssef, drew attention to his and his comrades' participation in planting trees on Syrian land, which its sons defended and exerted precious and precious to protect it.

The meeting was attended and the afforestation campaigns participated in the afforestation campaigns, the governor of Daraa, Marwan Sharbak, the secretary of the Daraa branch of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, Hussein al-Rifai, the police chief, and members of the People's Assembly.

Qasim Al-Miqdad