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Daraa Agriculture: an increase of 9900 hectares in the production plan for the new season

2022-08-17T09:35:04.687Z


Daraa-SANA With an increase of about 9900 hectares over the last season, the Daraa Agriculture Directorate has adopted its production plan for the new season


Daraa-Sana

With an increase of about 9900 hectares over the last season, the Daraa Agriculture Directorate has adopted its production plan for the new season.

Eng. Hassan Al-Ahmad, head of the Planning and International Cooperation Department in the Directorate of Agriculture, explained in a statement to SANA reporter that the area of ​​irrigated lands in the Sleikh increased in the new plan at the expense of the desolated forests by about 2,600 hectares, and the area of ​​rain-fed lands in the Sleikh increased by about 7,300 hectares with the entry of new rocky lands into agricultural investment as a result of Reclamation operations, indicating that the total irrigated area in the new plan is 25516 hectares, while the rainfed areas in the plan amount to 207865 hectares.

Regarding the distribution of areas on crops, Al-Ahmad said that the planned area for planting the tomato crop for the 2022-2023 season is 3000 hectares for primary and intensive cultivation, and in irrigated wheat 10500 hectares and about 83 thousand hectares were allocated for rainfed wheat, while the plan for planting barley reached 32400 hectares, spring potatoes 3100 hectares and legumes 23200 hectares The winter fodder crops are 7700 hectares.

Al-Ahmad indicated that the directorate noted in its new plan the topic of reducing the area of ​​some crops and vegetables that have a large water need in order to save fuel and fertilizer consumption, with a focus on producing the need for self-sufficiency and increasing the area of ​​forage and food legumes due to the increasing actual need for them.

Qasim Miqdad

SANA Economic Bulletin

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Source: sena

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