Hama-Sana
The farmers of the Al-Ghab area in Hama Governorate continue to harvest the crops of medicinal and aromatic plants grown for the current season.
The Director of Plant Wealth at the General Authority for the Management and Development of the Forest, Engineer Wafiq Zarouf, told SANA reporter that the area planted with medicinal and aromatic plants reached 2,168 hectares of the current season’s plan, which amounts to 2,290 hectares, of which 1,879 hectares are irrigated and the rest is irrigated, indicating that the harvested areas amounted to 2166 hectares, which produced 2,252 tons of crops. Nigella sativa, cumin, anise, coriander, thyme and fennel.
Zaroof said that the quantities of production of these crops for the current season were less than the previous season, especially in rainfed lands, due to the lack of rainfall and their retention during the month of April, and the occurrence of frost last March led to a decrease in production quantities for many crops, whether rainfed or irrigated.
For their part, a number of farmers, including Hussein Al-Jassem and Wael Al-Shahf, pointed out the difficulties and obstacles they faced this season, which negatively affected the production quantities in most medicinal and aromatic plants, and did not match the great effort they made and the costs of planting and harvesting, including the low prices of most crops except for cumin and the absence of an external market To address, they demanded the concerned authorities to financially compensate the farmers for the frost damage that affected most of the fields and negatively affected the production quantities.
Salem Al-Hussein
SANA Economic Bulletin
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