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Completion of the government response phase related to fire compensation and the transition to development support

2021-02-04T17:04:16.918Z


Lattakia-SANA The Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Engineer Muhammad Hassan Qatana, announced the completion of the response phase


Lattakia-Sana

The Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Eng. Muhammad Hassan Qatana, announced the completion of the government response phase related to the grant of fires that the Lattakia, Tartous and Homs governorates witnessed more than three months ago, and the transition to the development support phase.

During a press conference today in the Lattakia Governorate building, Minister Qatana explained that the response phase had been completed in which the total value of compensating farmers for the damaged production of fruit trees amounted to more than 29 billion Syrian pounds, as the government approved the distribution of compensation in three stages, the first of which is 50 percent and the second 25 percent The third is 25 percent. According to this procedure, about 14.5 billion Syrian pounds have been distributed so far.

The Minister Qatna referred to the directives of President Bashar al-Assad to allocate an amount exceeding 3 billion Syrian pounds to support villages and towns affected by fires and to establish development projects to support the sources of income of the residents living in them, and to the decree he issued to exempt farmers who owe the Agricultural Bank from the interest and fines resulting from their loans, scheduling these loans and giving them. An opportunity to get a new loan without any interest.

With regard to the efforts of the Ministry of Agriculture, Minister Qatana said that about 600,000 seedlings of olives and citrus fruits were provided to farmers for free in lieu of burned trees, in addition to providing technical and advisory support to farmers to overcome the problems they encounter on their lands due to fires.

He touched on the great role of the civil society, including the Syrian Trust for Development, which launched a national donation campaign for the benefit of those affected and distributed more than 8 billion pounds to more than 23 thousand and five hundred affected people in the governorates of Lattakia, Tartous and Homs, and its cooperation with the specialized teams to restore and rehabilitate more than 200 houses affected by fires within 19 A town with a total amount of approximately 400 million Syrian pounds and networking with the National Foundation for Small Finance to grant loans to help the people in the most affected villages, and the total loans granted reached more than one billion Syrian pounds.

In turn, the Governor of Lattakia, Major General Ibrahim Khader Al-Salem, reviewed the efforts made to rehabilitate the infrastructure in the affected villages, repair the damage caused to electricity, water, communications and irrigation hoses, follow up the distribution of compensation to the beneficiaries, and consider the objections submitted to compensation.

Regarding the objections file, the governor revealed that all the objections were followed up, including in the village of Marj Ma'irban and the village of Deir Ibrahim in the countryside of Qardaha, where a special committee for complaints was formed that examined the title deeds and real estate registration data and reveals the land and found a defect in the data of each of the mayor of the village of Marj Ma'irban And his brothers, the head of the agricultural association in the village of Deir Ibrahim, his brothers, and others, bearing in mind that both the mayor and the president of the association are members of the spatial committee for fire compensation, as their properties were precautionary seized with a prohibition on leaving them to ensure the recovery of the undue amounts spent on them, and 18 persons who are not entitled to compensation have been identified. Awarded to them totaling 47,646,237 liras.

For his part, the Governor of Tartous, Safwan Abu Saada, pointed out that the number of fires in the governorate reached 62, affecting 113 villages, and the number of those affected was 4,800, indicating that the affected cultivated area amounted to about 1500 hectares compared to a thousand hectares of forest land in addition to 11 houses, 500 beehives and dozens of houses were damaged. Plastic.

He added that the value of repairing the damage to the telecommunications and electricity sectors amounted to 600 million pounds, and 3.3 billion pounds were allocated as compensation to farmers for damages to producing fruit trees, and 50 percent of them were distributed as a first payment.

During his response to journalists' interventions regarding afforestation in the affected forest areas, Minister Qatana said, “The burned areas are mostly virgin forests with vegetation cover and very large biological diversity, and direct intervention in them may lead to greater damage to this ecosystem .. which prompted us to take the decision to leave all areas. Forestry for a year or two to make room for vegetation to renew itself with all components. As for artificially embarrassed areas that have lost their cover completely or need restoration due to their fragility, intervention will be direct.

According to the Minister Qatana, the current plans of the Ministry include instructional seminars in the affected villages on methods of regenerative pruning of burnt trees, removal of forest lines and fire lines, and the construction of new forest roads.

The extensive fires affected a number of forests and lands in villages and towns in the governorates of Lattakia, Tartous and Homs, and resulted in damage to property and agricultural lands.

Source: sena

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