Deir Ezzor-SANA
The Directorate of Agriculture in Deir Ezzor announced the agricultural plan for the agricultural season 2022-2023, which was approved by the Agricultural Sub-Council.
The Director of Agriculture, Fouad Abdoun, said in a statement to SANA that the increase in the areas planted with these strategic crops comes as a result of the expansion of cultivable areas after the completion of new irrigation projects, the most important of which is the Seventh Sector Project for Governmental Irrigation, which will enter service soon, pointing out that the agricultural plan was developed on the basis of a need. The actual market, in partnership with the concerned authorities in agriculture, the Peasants' Union, the Chamber of Agriculture, the Syndicate of Agricultural Engineers and the Agricultural Bank.
Abdoun said that the areas planned to be planted with wheat in the governorate amounted to 32,649 hectares, an increase of 2,841 hectares over the plan of last season. The areas planned for barley cultivation increased to 8,039 hectares, compared to 7,108 hectares last season, while the area planned to be planted with cotton was 6731 hectares.
Abdoun indicated that the planned areas for planting spring potatoes amounted to 45 hectares, food legumes 171 hectares, and oil crops 174 hectares, while the plan for planting summer vegetables amounted to 1830 hectares, intensifying winter vegetables 674 hectares, fodder crops 768 hectares and intensifying summer vegetables crops 797 hectares.
Ibrahim Al-Dhalli
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