Estimated production of more than five thousand tons of apples in Quneitra

The Directorate of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform in Quneitra estimated the production there at more than five thousand tons of apples for the current agricultural season.

According to the director of Quneitra Agriculture, Eng. Ahmed Deeb, this season witnessed a noticeable increase in the governorate’s production of apples, after the production amounted last year to 4,924 tons.

The Director of Agriculture pointed out that new areas of land planted with apples in the governorate have entered the agricultural plan, especially in the villages and towns of the northern countryside, indicating that the areas of land planted with apples in Quneitra amounted to 7200 hectares.

It is noteworthy that apple cultivation is mostly concentrated in the northern sector of the governorate, in the villages of Hadar, Al-Amal farms, Al-Helles, Nabe’ Al-Fawwar, Al-Kom and Khan Arnabah, while most of the planted trees belong to the types of Starken and Golden.

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