DAMASCUS, (ST) – The Governor of Lattakia Ibrahim Khedr Salem distributed a number of agricultural tools and seeds of winter vegetables on a group of farmers in the province of Lattakia, as a present of the Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD), and in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform in Syria.
This step comes within the ACSAD’s plan to support the project of domestic cropsin the Syrian countryside, in order to ensure self-sufficiency for farmers, which is implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture in Syria, where the center will provide the project of up to 30 million Syrian Pounds.
The ACSAD is currently implementing four-water gates in the mountains of the Syrian coast areas, for the benefit of farmers to irrigate their crops in summer, and to help in extinguishing forest fires, and providing water to the neighboring areas of these forests. The scapacity of the single water gate of those four gates is about 50 thousand cubic meters, the costof these projectsisestimated at 200 million Syrian Pounds. The ACSAD confirmed that this support comes as loyaltyto the support provided by the Syrian Arab Republic to the ACSAD throughout its history .
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