Opening laboratories and a market for rural women’s products, and getting acquainted with the agricultural and educational realities in the countryside of Aleppo and Raqqa

Aleppo and Raqqa-SANA

The Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Eng. Muhammad Hassan Qatna, inaugurated today laboratories for diagnosing livestock diseases, seed health, the biological control center and the market for rural women's products in the Directorate of Agriculture in Aleppo.

The market for rural women's products includes about 27 booths for honey products, jams, juices, dairy, cheese, spices, wheat products, some types of detergents and handicrafts. It aims to market rural women's products and break the mediator cycle between the producer and the consumer.

Minister Qatana was briefed with Minister of Education, Dr. Darem Tabbaa, about the agricultural and educational realities in the eastern countryside of Aleppo and the southwestern countryside of Raqqa.

The tour included Youssef Al-Azma School in Deir Hafer, where school bags were distributed to students, Hussain Al-Ghadban School in Maskna, and Debsy Faraj and Al-Ameerat rural schools in Raqqa.

In a statement to the media, the Minister of Education affirmed the ministry's interest and follow-up on the educational process in areas liberated from terrorism, especially in terms of rehabilitating schools to accommodate new students, which contributes to the return of parents to their villages and homes.

And Firas Mahmoud Al-Alou, Director of Education in Raqqa Governorate, indicated that the number of schools in the Raqqa countryside reached 120 schools, while the number of students reached 35,000 male and female students, noting that work is continuing to open more schools to stabilize the educational process.

The two farmers met at the Cultural Center in Dibsi Afnan in Raqqa countryside and listened to their demands, which focused on addressing the transfer of funds to and from the Agricultural Bank, extending the period of the fodder cycle to complete the extraction of fodder, demanding an emergency fodder cycle for sheep, delivering water to irrigate the fields, and reducing the prices of fertilizers, seeds and diesel.

In his response to the interventions, the Minister of Agriculture referred to the measures taken by the Ministry to secure the necessary quantities of fertilizers, seeds and fuels for the current season, calling on farmers to cooperate with agricultural associations to organize the agricultural process and to abide by the guidelines to increase production, especially in cotton, wheat and corn crops, and to rely on irrigated crops to achieve good production, pointing to The Ministry intends to open a forage course in the middle of this month to serve breeders while continuing to work on maintaining and rehabilitating irrigation networks to provide water for farmers' fields.

The Minister of Agriculture also met with a number of farmers in the city of Maskana in the countryside of Aleppo and talked with them about the reality of cultivating winter crops and the production requirements they need, stressing the ministry’s efforts to secure them. and cooling, sorting and packing operations. He also visited the sifting center in Tel Balat, affiliated to the Foundation for Seed Multiplication, with a production capacity of 10 tons per hour, calling on those concerned to start sifting and packing operations since receiving the crop.

The Governor of Aleppo Hussein Diab, the Governor of Raqqa Abdul Razzaq Khalifa and the Secretary of the Raqqa branch of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, Abdul Aziz Al-Issa, participated in the tour and meetings.

Qusai Razzouk

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