Abundant wheat, Cotton Harvest in Hasaka

HASAKA, (ST)_ Hasaka province estimated  production of wheat during the current season is  058.1 million tons, and 7.222 thousand tons of barley, according to agriculture department chairman Azzawi Azzawi .  

” Total area planted with wheat and viable harvest in various areas reached 549 822 hectares of the entire area planted with  this crop, amounting to 594 807 hectares,”  Azzawi  said,  noting that the rest of the  area was left uncultivated  due to the entrapment of rain in  March.

Azzawi continued that Lentils production is  estimated at  43 thousand tons of the entire area viable for harvest, amounting to 3.37 thousand hectares, pointing out that rain-fed crops in the third and fourth  stability areas are not cultivated as a  result of rain entrapment.

On the other hand, head of Hasaka  Directorate of cotton cultivation Rajab Salameh said that  acreage of cotton crop since the start of farming operations reached 7500 hectares out of the entire  area set for cultivation amounting to 57 thousand hectares.

He noted  difficulties  facing cotton cultivation, including shortage in  cotton seeds, fertilizers and fuels and continuous disruption of power supply in addition to the high cost of cotton  cultivation  .

T. Fateh