Cultivation of more than 24 thousand hectares of cotton

Aleppo-Sana

The areas planted with the cotton crop in Syria for this season amounted to 24048 hectares out of the planned area for cultivation of 57,365 hectares, with an implementation rate of 41 percent in the producing provinces of Hama, Aleppo, Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor, Hasaka and Al-Ghab area.

Dr. Ahmed Gomaa, director of the Cotton Office, said in a statement to SANA reporter that the decrease in the area of ​​the cultivated quantities from the planned one was due to the high cost of production requirements and the unsuitability of the weather conditions for agriculture in terms of cold weather and continued rainfall with the beginning of the cultivation period and the competition of small and condensed crops that do not need large quantities of Irrigation, watering and agricultural care.

Jumaa considered that the new price of the cotton crop, amounting to 4,000 Syrian pounds per kilogram, contributes to encouraging and motivating farmers to expand the cultivation of the crop for the next year, describing the general condition of the crop as good and the plant is currently in the stage of nut formation in the early fields and the stage of flowers in the late fields.

Juma'a stated that in order to avoid the impact of high temperatures on the crop, farmers were directed to give light and close irrigation to reduce the rate of precipitation. As for insect infections, it was noted that there were light infections with nut worms in Aleppo governorate, which are below the economic threshold, and they were biologically combated on an area of ​​160 hectares by the Directorate of Agriculture and the Cotton Research Office .

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