Hama-Sana
Abdel Rahman Badi Fadl, Head of the Tobacco Planting Division in the Al-Ghab region, expected the production of about 1,777 tons of the tobacco crop during the current agricultural season of the Virginia and Burley varieties, pointing out that tobacco cultivation witnessed a great expansion in recent years and an increasing demand from farmers, as the area planted with tobacco reached 10,843 dunums, most of it. in irrigated lands.
In a statement to SANA Economic Bulletin, Fadl indicated that tobacco cultivation is concentrated in the villages and towns of Ain al-Krum, al-Suqaylabiyah, al-Hassa, Shataha, Salhab, al-Tremseh, Dimo, al-Rabea, Jib Ramla, Shiha and Taizin, noting that tobacco cultivation is currently a source of remunerative income for many families who market their crop to the General Organization for Tobacco .
A number of farmers talked about tobacco cultivation, which goes through several stages, from plowing, irrigation and fertilization to harvesting and spreading tobacco threads until the leaves are completely dry and then kept in bales to be delivered to the Tobacco Corporation. Sufficient such as fertilizers, diesel, pesticides and hand
working.
Suhad Hassan
SANA Economic Bulletin