Rural Damascus-SANA
In order to encourage the expansion of the cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants, and in view of their economic and cosmetic importance, the Agricultural and Family Rural Development and Agricultural Education Departments in the Directorate of Agriculture in Damascus Countryside have implemented a training course targeting a group of women, during which they learned about the importance of these plants and their impact on human health.
In a statement to SANA reporter, the Director of Agriculture in Damascus Countryside, Engineer Irfan Ziadeh, explained that the women participating in the course are from the Department of Agriculture in Damascus, and he was able to learn about the benefits of medicinal plants as food and medicine and their economic value, such as rosemary, mint and caraway, and how to optimally use them to obtain the desired benefit.
Ziadeh pointed out that the five-day course explained the difference between the different methods of use, such as soaking, boiling, extracting and emulsifying, how to obtain them and what part of the plant is used, in addition to conducting training on how to prepare apple cider vinegar and its medicinal uses.
The participants also learned, according to an increase, the methods of preparing some cosmetics from those plants that are available at a simple economic cost, and how some plant extracts are used in combating some agricultural pests, such as garlic and azodarchite extract.
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