Al-Hasakah-SANA
The Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Eng. Muhammad Hassan Qatna, was briefed on the progress of work in the livestock center in the city of Qamishli in al-Hasakah, which is designated to purchase wheat and barley from farmers.
During his tour, the Minister of Agriculture met with a number of farmers and breeders who demanded securing agricultural production requirements, canceling farmers’ debts to agricultural banks, increasing the purchase price of wheat and barley, and securing the breeders’ need for rationed fodder and the quantities granted within the fodder cycle, as well as securing a free veterinary vaccine to immunize the entire livestock wealth.
The Minister of Agriculture stressed that the agricultural conditions that Al-Hasakah is going through are “exceptional as a result of the drought that has greatly affected the production of various crops, including wheat and barley, leaving rainfed areas out of production and low productivity of irrigated areas,” pointing to the keenness to encourage farmers to market their crops, which provides the governorate’s need for Wheat material to secure bread and barley to secure the needs of livestock and agricultural seeds.
He also pointed out that with the aim of encouraging farmers to market, the specifications for purchasing wheat were modified and the crime raised from 16 to 23 percent, to be sifted after receiving it, indicating that with regard to the provision of rationed fodder, work is being done to distribute it according to what the governorate provides of raw material, and the Directorate of Agriculture will be provided with quantities Additional veterinary vaccines in addition to securing its need for wheat and barley seeds allocated for the next season's planting plan.
Minister Qatana called on the Directorate of Agriculture to create agricultural units in the villages in which there are an agricultural engineer, a veterinarian and an agricultural technician, with the aim of providing various services to farmers in their places of residence.
After that, a service meeting was held in the General Authority of Qamishli Hospital, during which the interventions focused on the necessity of finding a water alternative for the people of Al-Hasakah city after the repeated stoppage of the Allouk station as a result of the practices of the Turkish occupation, securing seeds for the cotton crop, rehabilitating the cultural center in Qamishli, addressing structural violations, and opening agricultural insurance companies.
This was followed by a tour of the hospital's medical isolation department to see what it contains of medical equipment and equipment and the services it provides to Corona patients.
The Minister of State for People’s Assembly Affairs, Eng. Maloul Al-Hussein, President of the General Union of Farmers Ahmed Ibrahim, the Syndicate of Veterinarians in Syria, Iyad Sweidan, the Governor of Hasaka, Major General Ghassan Khalil, the Secretary of the Arab Socialist Baath Party’s branch, Turki Aziz Hassan, the police chief, and those concerned with the service and agricultural reality in the governorate participated in the tour.
