Damascus-SANA
The Economic Committee agreed to the request of sugar beet farmers and the proposal of the General Union of Peasants to amend the contracts concluded with the farmers of the Al-Ghab area in Hama so that the sweetness degree of the sugar content of the beet crop delivered to Tal Salhab Company becomes 13 percent instead of 16 percent, and the prices are calculated accordingly and the period of receiving the crop is reduced after maturity.
The committee assigned the Ministry of Industry and the General Sugar Corporation to amend the 4,464 contracts and to set tables with the names of the farmers who were contracted to grow sugar beet for the Tal Salhab Sugar Company so that marketing is carried out according to the planting dates in coordination with the sub-committees in the governorates.
In a statement to SANA’s representative, the Director General of the General Sugar Corporation, Engineer Saad Al-Din Al-Ali, confirmed that the aim of amending the condition for the degree of beet sweetness is to facilitate the delivery of the crop, indicating that the delivery of multi-embryo and high-productivity beet seeds that were imported is still continuing to farmers through the branches of the Agricultural Cooperative Bank to start directly cultivation and production. The quantities contracted to operate the Tal Salhab sugar factory.
Al-Ali expressed his hope that the contracts will be successfully tested, so that they can be used in the coming years to revive the cultivation of sugar beet and manufacture it locally through the factories and companies of the General Sugar Corporation.
It is noteworthy that the Council of Ministers approved on the 24th of last month the recommendation of the Economic Committee to set the selling price for one kilogram of imported sugar beet seeds “autumn grove” for the 2021-2022 season to farmers at 30,000 Syrian pounds. Last September, it also agreed to set a purchase price One kilogram of sugar beet crop from farmers for the 2021-2022 season is 250 Syrian pounds.
Ahmed Souliman