Eastern Ghouta farmers restore life to more than 5,600 hectares of their damaged land
Damascus countryside (ST): The citizens of the cities, towns and villages of Eastern Ghouta restored life to their agricultural lands that were damaged during the war. The areas cultivated with different vegetables, grains and various trees amounted to about 5,673 hectares, according to the head of the Eastern Ghouta Agriculture Department.
The head of the department, Engineer Obada Bakro, said in a statement to a SANA reporter that the entire area planned for summer crops for this year,which amounts to 354.7 hectares, had been planted, and about 1,491.4 hectares had been reforested.
Bakro pointed out that the farmers of Eastern Ghouta were able, with their will and determination, to restore the greenness of Ghouta by planting the entire area with various types of summer and winter crops, and restoring the areas whose trees were cut in previous years, by developing a plan to reforest the entire area which amounts to 3,470 hectares through the distribution of subsidized fruitful seedlings to farmers.
Bakro pointed out that the agricultural plan in Ghouta was fully implemented for this season as various types of vegetables were planted, such as beans, eggplant, okra, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, peppers, coriander, cowpeas, parsley, in addition to planting about 195 hectares of wheat.
Many of Ghouta’s farmers talked about their love for their land, as it is a lifeline for them that they cannot do without. Since the liberation of Ghouta and the farmers’ return to their homes in 2018, the farmers immediately began the process of rehabilitating and cultivating their lands with different crops to make them better than they were.
Farmer Abdel Razzaq says that upon his return to his land of 25 dunums, he immediately began rehabilitating it and planting it with various types of fruit trees and summer and winter crops, especially the apricot tree, due to its importance to the Qamar al-Din industry, for which Ghouta is famous.
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