Daraa-Sana
In Daraa governorate, the process of marketing agricultural products such as red and yellow watermelons, cucumbers, zucchini, beans, tomatoes, onions and garlic, in addition to lettuce and parsley, began in large quantities to the local markets in Daraa and Damascus, amid suffering from the imbalance of production costs with the prevailing prices.
Farmers in Daraa indicated in statements to the SANA Economic Bulletin that agricultural products are offered at cheap prices compared to the high costs, especially in the high prices of fuel and oils needed to operate engines and the high maintenance wages in conjunction with the application of a rationing program on agricultural wells.
Farmer Fayez Mansour said: The labor wages are high, amounting to about a thousand pounds per hour of work, in addition to the high wages of transportation to local markets in the neighboring governorates, pointing to a significant increase in the prices of containers made of plastic or cork and some agricultural production requirements such as pesticides, while demand is still weak. With the increase in the quantities of products with the beginning of the season.
For his part, Ahmed Hegazy, head of the Agricultural Affairs Office in the Daraa Farmers Union, explained with a similar statement that the only way to reduce labor costs on farms begins by providing production requirements at subsidized prices and sufficient quantities, especially fuels, oils, fertilizers, seeds and control materials, stressing that the provision of supplies and positive intervention in the marketing process that Farmers are tired because of the high wages of transport and shipping, which is reflected positively on the price of the agricultural product, and thus prices in the markets are reduced to the acceptable limits and in a way that equals the purchasing power of people with limited incomes and also contributes to increasing agricultural production.
Qasim Miqdad
SANA Economic Bulletin