Tartous-SANA
Technical cadres, workshops and mechanisms affiliated with the Water Resources Directorate in Tartous Governorate have begun operations to isolate the main and secondary irrigation channels, to be ready for investment during the next agricultural season.
The Director of Water Resources in Tartous, Eng. Muhammad Mahrez, told SANA reporter that the cadres of the Directorate have begun the removal and maintenance operations of the main western canal of the Martyr Basil al-Assad Dam, to be ready for the flow of irrigation water from the dam to agricultural lands in the Akkar Plain, and to protect them from the danger of floods, explaining that It is expected that approximately 4,000 hectares of agricultural land in the plain will be irrigated from the dam's waters.
Engineer Jamil Hammoud, head of the Investment Division of the Western Canal belonging to Al-Basil Dam, explained in a similar statement that the Directorate periodically carries out operations to isolate the main western canal with a length of 19 kilometers, noting that this canal irrigates the villages of Arabs and Hamidiya through a main reservoir located in the village of Buhouzi, in addition to the villages of Samaryan, Hoora, Beit Choufan, Meyar Shaker, Samaka, and Majdaloun al-Bahr.
Hammoud pointed out that the removal operations are carried out annually through the directorate’s mechanisms, in addition to the human technical cadres, who remove the sub-channels in various locations of the irrigation project in the Akkar Plain.
On the importance of maintaining and removing irrigation canals, farmer Mahmoud Skaf from the village of Tarkab, who is one of the beneficiaries of the governmental irrigation project in the Akkar Plain, said that he is waiting, like other farmers, for the end of periodic maintenance operations to be able to water his land planted with citrus and the greenhouse project he owns, stressing that he In the event that periodic maintenance is not carried out, farmers cannot irrigate their crops, which will lead to the loss of their seasons, which are the source of their livelihood.
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