As-Suwayda-Sana
The Directorate of Agriculture in As-Suwayda called on farmers to start controlling the apple fruit worm within the areas planted with the crop, which are less than 1500 meters in height.
The head of the Directorate's Prevention Department, Engineer Hatem Al-Barbour, stated in a statement to SANA reporter today that the appropriate time for the control in these areas is between the 9th and the 13th of this month, indicating that the announcement of the control in those areas was based on the monitoring and development of the insect eggs and the readings of pheromone traps by agricultural technicians within the sites Apple cultivation.
Al-Barbour pointed out that there is a follow-up to the rest of the regions to announce the controls in their appropriate times, stressing the importance of applying control operations to this main pest of the crop in the governorate, which negatively affects the economy of production and the quality of the product.
On the other hand, the head of the Department of Prevention stated that the directorate fought for free an area of 1,000 dunums planted with wheat in the area to the west of the city of As-Suwayda against the sunnah insect after the injuries there reached the threshold of economic damage, pointing out that investigations for the insect will continue during the coming days in various cultivation areas. the crop.
The cultivation of apples is considered one of the main crops in As-Suwayda Governorate. The total areas planted with trees are about 15,000 hectares, while the total areas planted with wheat in As-Suwayda for the current season exceeded more than 337,000 acres.
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