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