Damascus-SANA
The training workshop on regenerative agriculture in Syria, organized by the United Nations Development Program “UNDP” in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture, concluded today.
The Minister of Agriculture, Eng. Mohamed Hassan Qatna, stressed the importance of linking these projects and the mechanisms for their implementation on the ground, spreading this culture and promoting it, presenting its results and the added value it provides, and targeting an area or group of villages with these projects so that they are first applied in one of these villages to be the nucleus of an integrated project that can be generalized. .
Qatana pointed to the need to think about how to return the farmer to his land and help him invest it, especially in the lands that were left out of investment for certain reasons, such as small holdings or exposure to damage, and they are still suitable for investment, and studying the resources that exist in them, land, water, climate, human power and their comparative advantages, and determining the reasons for choosing them to establish any project in them. Referring to the role of international organizations working in Syria in this.
Nadia Al-Attar from the Rural Development Project at the United Nations Development Program explained that the workshop today concludes the Regenerative Agriculture Project, which was implemented in cooperation with the Organic Production Department in the Ministry of Agriculture for two years, with the aim of training technicians and agricultural extension workers on the practices of regenerative agriculture, as one of its most important results. Transfer of knowledge to 170 farmers who implemented this cultivation on small holdings in their lands. The results showed the ability of renewable agriculture to reduce costs and improve productivity and product quality. Through the project, marketing outlets were opened for organic renewable products.
The head of the Organic Production Department, Dr. Mazen Al-Madani, indicated that work on this project started two years ago by training technicians on regenerative agricultural techniques that aim to renew and improve the soil biologically, and then move to work with the targeted farmers to implement this agriculture on the ground and teach them the most important principles of its application.
Ghassob Abboud
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