Lattakia.. 80 tons of citrus have been retrieved so far

Latakia-SANA

The Syrian Trade Establishment followed the procedures of purchasing citrus from farmers and marketing it to its showrooms in various governorates and to various consumer agencies, according to the government plan recently approved for citrus marketing.

SANA’s camera on the ground accompanied these procedures through its visit to the Syrian-affiliated citrus sorting and packaging center for trade in Al-Yarubiyah area, where the General Director of Syrian Trade, Ziad Hazaa, confirmed to SANA reporter that the institution was supplied with very large quantities of boxes, and 80 tons have been extracted so far and distributed to the halls belonging to Syria For trade in addition to opening new internal markets to dispose of the largest quantity and improve the price so that it is reflected positively with the cost margin on the peasant brothers.

Sami Halil, director of the Syrian branch of trade in Latakia, said: A committee has been formed that includes representatives of the Syrian Trade and the Directorate of Agriculture and the Governorate to be responsible for preparing an executive plan to follow up on the marketing of citrus, and to develop a study of the most urgent varieties for marketing, and to study the needs of all institutions from various ministries, in addition to the need of local markets. The mechanism of receiving from the farmers and work started since yesterday and we are now continuing to work.

In turn, Nawaf Shehadeh, assistant director of agriculture and a member of the marketing committee in the governorate, explained that the number of boxes that were distributed to farmers to fill them with citrus and then market them reached nearly six thousand boxes per day, pointing out that distributing boxes and transferring the crop saves farmers 300 pounds per kilo as wages. Packages, transportation and commissioning.

During a visit to a citrus farm in the village of Hanadi, Nidal Shaheen, a member of the Citrus Marketing Committee, said that the committee carries out coordination tasks between farmers, represented by the agricultural and Syrian trade associations, and we started today from the village of Hanadi. The beginning is generally good, and the improvement will be noticeable in the coming days in terms of prices.

Farmer Mazen Zahra from the village of Al-Hanadi said that the farmers’ suffering was great, and the matter came to selling a kilo of oranges for fifty liras, and this does not cover the cost, which is much greater, adding that they faced many difficulties in terms of transportation, the price of the bag, commission and workers’ rent, which forced them to collect the crop not for the purpose of selling Rather, it is to clean the orchard and not to rot the fruits under the trees.

Zahra hopes that things will improve for the better after the government’s intervention, as prices became 650 for the first variety and 550 for the second and third, after the price of the first variety was only 300 pounds, noting that President Bashar al-Assad’s directives to market citrus came at the right time, as 1,000 boxes were sent to the village as a first stage. And we marketed a quantity of it yesterday, and we are now marketing the rest.

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