ACSAD to offer SYP100 million in aid to farmers affected by recent fires in Syria’s coastal and central regions

Economy & Aftermath

DAMASCUS, (ST)- The Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD) has announced that it will offer 100 million Syrian pounds as well as technical and logistic materials as direct assistance for Syria to help alleviate the impacts of the recent fires that raged in the Syrian coastal and central regions and that damaged agricultural lands and affected many famers and breeders.

ACSAD Director-General Naser Eddin Al-Obaid said in a statement to SANA that the center is ready to cooperate with the Syrian Ministry of Agriculture to reduce as much as possible the repercussions of the fires and to revive the affected areas by providing seedlings including fruit and forestry trees seedlings as well as seeds. He added that the center is also ready to provide necessary assistance to affected farmers to replant their lands and invest them again.

 According to Al-Obaid, the aid includes providing 50,000 olive seedlings and specifying the locations of fire trails in the affected sites and for establishing mountain lakes to be used in extinguishing possible future fires. The aid also includes rehabilitating the mountainous lands that were affected by the fires.

Al-Obaid indicated that ACSAD will conduct a number of training courses at its expense on methods of planting and caring for olive trees and will contribute to providing technical expertise on maintaining forests and protecting them from fires.

Hamda Mustafa

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