Tartous-Sana
The Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Engineer Muhammad Hassan Qatana, confirmed that the technical specifications of the wheat crop in Tartous governorate are “very good” and that the mechanism used to receive the crop from farmers according to the organization of the role has satisfied them in terms of price and delivery procedures.
This came during a tour by Minister Qatna in the governorate to see the reality of marketing the wheat crop.
The tour included the citrus office in the governorate to see its rehabilitation works, in addition to meeting farmers in wheat fields, citrus and olive orchards, and greenhouses in several villages in the countryside of the governorate.
In addition, Minister Qatna held a meeting with the agricultural family in the building of the Directorate of Agriculture in the governorate, during which they discussed the executive frameworks and the policies to be applied in the next phase by relying on the establishment of special strategic projects for each governorate and the selection of a group of development and export villages and the presence of strategic crops on which development projects are built, with defining programs Support for farmers.
Minister Qatna stressed the importance of moving agricultural work, both animal and vegetable, according to a strategy and new visions and according to the specificity of each governorate, and the need to work according to methodological foundations through which a database for the agricultural sector is formed in each governorate, pointing to the importance of covering the local market and allocating part of the production for external export and providing support and incentives To ensure that the farmer continues to work and achieve stability in this sector through the application of correct agricultural practices.
In turn, the head of the Tartous Farmers Union, Muhammad Hussein, pointed out, in a statement to reporters, to the most important difficulties facing farmers in Tartous, including the lack of irrigation water for the citrus crop, the failure of olive and tobacco farmers to receive fertilizers for nearly two years, and the shortage of water for the wheat and tobacco crops in the rural areas of Qadmus and Anazah.
Fatima Hussain
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