Increasing the area planted with wheat and barley in Al-Hasakah due to the rains

The Directorate of Agriculture in Al-Hasakah indicated that the total area planted with wheat and barley crops to date has approached 50,000 hectares.

The head of the Plant Production Department in the Directorate of Agriculture, Jalal Bilal, said in a statement to SANA reporter that the rains that fell during the past two days throughout the governorate encouraged farmers to grow wheat and barley crops, especially in the  rainy areas.

Bilal indicated that the highest amount of rainfall that the governorate witnessed during the two days was in the Tel Brak area, which amounted to 13 mm, while it reached 10 mm in Hasakah and the rest of the areas between 4 and 6 mm.

It is noteworthy that the lack of rainfall since the beginning of the current winter agricultural season has reduced the rate of cultivating wheat and barley crops in Al-Hasakah Governorate, in light of the farmers’ fear of a recurrence of the drought during the last season.

Inas Abdulkareem