SFAC: Reducing Impact of the Crisis on Future of Livestock

DAMASCUS, (ST) – Technical Advisor of the Syrian Federation of Agriculture Chambers (SFAC), eng.  Abdul Rahman Qrunfleh, called for intensify efforts to reduce the effects of the crisis, that Syria has experienced, on the future of livestock development and deterioration of productivity that threatens the future of producing herds and future generations.

In a statement to reporters, eng. Qurunfleh, underlined the importance of the contribution of  fodders’ suppliers in private sector and the General Foundation for Fodders to ensure fodders from cheap sources for the herds of livestock in addition to offering loans from the Agricultural Cooperative Bank (ACB) and helping  suppliers of fodders in public and private sectors to provide the necessary funding to secure Syria’s need of fodders and taking the necessary measures to reduce the impact of the restrictions imposed by the regulations, which restrict the work of the bank.

He noted that the crisis in Syria has been a reason to deprive sheep and goats from visiting pastoral areas and take advantage of the free natural vegetation and impeding the movement of sheep and not moving the products of breeders of dairy and wool to markets in addition to the reduction of implementing the plans, programs and projects of the Ministry of Agriculture aimed at developing livestock in general and the development of the productivity of natural pastures and sheep in particular.

He explained that the cows were affected sharply due to the ceasing of factories of fodders and factories producing cake cotton and peel cotton in Aleppo as well as the exposure of some warehouses in more than one governorate to looting, theft and vandalism.

He clarified to the decline in the implementation of preventive immunizations rates for livestock as a result of the inability of veterinary technicians to get the vaccine and not being able to reach the areas of livestock in other cases. This fact led a large number of sheep breeders to sell half of their herds to spend on feeding the other half.

Sh. Kh.