As-Suwayda-Sana
The Syrian company for the manufacture of grapes in Sweida has equipped machines, packing and mashing lines, presses, tanks and other equipment in preparation for receiving the grape crop from farmers within a plan to receive 8,000 tons of the juicy grape crop, at a price of 1,000 Syrian pounds per kilogram of white grapes and 1200 pounds for black grapes.
The company's general manager, Fadi Choucair, said in a statement to SANA reporter that the date for receiving the farmers' crop will be determined in the coming days based on the degree of sweetness and maturity of the grapes in the main production areas, pointing to the company's role as it represents one of the main marketing outlets for farmers to dispose of their production.
In conjunction with the company’s preparations, a number of As-Suwayda farmers began picking grapes for the current season within the warmer, low-lying areas located
In the western regions to maintain that it extends successively to the rest of the main production areas during the coming period, according to the Director of Agriculture in Sweida, Engineer Ayham Hamed.
Hamed explained that the governorate’s production estimates of grape fruits for the current season amount to more than 54,000 tons, distributed between direct consumption and marketing to the Syrian company for the manufacture of grapes or local manufacture, in order to achieve an added value for farmers, indicating that the cultivation of the vine tree is one of the basic cultivations in As-Suwayda Governorate and is spread in many From the areas, especially in Dahr al-Jabal, al-Kafr, Mayamas, al-Sahwa, Arman, Qanawat, Mafa'ilah and Shahba.
According to the head of the Suwayda Peasants’ Union, Samir Al-Baini, the Syrian company for the manufacture of grapes in Sweida granted, according to a memorandum of understanding with the union during the last period, an advance of 500 million pounds to need assistance for farmers wishing to hand over their crop to the company to provide part of the production requirements and to enable them to continue working in light of the repercussions of the unjust economic siege on Syria.
Al-Baini indicated that the mechanisms that transport the crop to the company will be supported with diesel, and it was agreed to allocate 5 liters of the substance to each farmer for each ton marketed as a matter of encouragement and motivating him to market.
The total area planted with grape-producing vines in the governorate is 9977 hectares, containing 4 million and 750 thousand trees, of which the fruit is 4 million and 250 thousand trees.
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