11 new productive cooperatives established in different Syrian provinces to improve farmers’ socio-economic conditions

The General Union of Farmers has established 11 new productive cooperatives in different Syrian provinces since the beginning of last year in cooperation with the Syria Trust for Development, Head of the union’s Office of Productive Cooperatives Nidal Shaheen has revealed.

The newly established cooperatives aim at improving the socio-economic conditions of the farmers, Shaheen said in a statement to SANA.

He clarified that the activities of the cooperatives cover the aromatic crops, fruit trees, protected crops, beekeeping and cow breeding in the governorates of Tartous, Lattakia, Quneitra, Damascus countryside and Hama.

Some farmers also called for establishing productive cooperatives that specialize in strategic agricultural products and animal production and for supporting these cooperatives in light of the high prices of agricultural work requirements, mainly improved seeds, fertilizers, fodders, fruit and forestry saplings and the fuel necessary for agricultural machines and for irrigation.

Hamda Mustafa