The number of industrial establishments and factories in the Industrial City of Sheikh Najjar in Aleppo reached about 600, despite the damage the city suffered from terrorism and the looting of production lines and machines.

The Director of the Industrial City of Sheikh Najjar Engineer Hazem Ajan said rehabilitation process of infrastructure and industrial facilities in the 4412 hectares- City started with the liberation of Aleppo in 2016.

He added that the government supported more than 127 service projects of with a total value of more than 7.5 billion pounds. The projects included water and potable water projects, where two stations for industrial water pumping have been reused in an emergency manner and the reuse of 3 electrical transfer stations.

”Syrian citrus has become one of the most important agricultural activities in recent years. Therefore, governmental plans focus on the expansion of this activity relying on  clear strategic orientations to increase its contribution to the national economy” Eng. Mais Shehadeh , Head of the Agriculture Economy Department at Lattakia’s Agriculture Directorate ,  said in a statement to Syriatimes e- newspaper.

The 97th session of the monthly marketing festival "Made in Syria" was opened at al-Jala'a Sports city with the participation of 130 national industrial companies.

Organized by the Chamber of Industry in Damascus and Damascus Countryside, the festival displays a wide choice of food products, textiles and different kinds of detergents in appropriate prices.
Chairman of Industry Chamber in Damascus and its Countryside Samer al-Dibes affirmed in a press statement that the Chamber would continue to organize this event to present the products of the industrialists to consumers directly.
The official in charge of the Syrian Trade Establishment Moualla Aranji said that the prices in the pavilion are 30 per cent lower than the market, noting that the products are various.
He affirmed the necessity of offering sales in every session of the festival so that companies can support citizens in light of the soaring prices.
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DAMASCUS, (ST)- With the purpose of marketing the citrus fruits crop abroad, the Ministry of Agriculture has launched the Quality Accreditation Program and opened a direct sea route from Syria to Russia and to engage senior exporters in the marketing process.

Director of the ministry's Citrus Office, Eng. Suheil Hamdan told SANA that Syria's production of citrus fruits this year reached around a million tons, 230 tons are from Tartous and the rest are from Lattakia. This crop constitutes the basic source of income for 50,000 families, working in farming citrus trees, in addition to hundreds of thousands of people who work indirectly in the crop's harvesting, transporting and marketing.

He pointed out that the surplus of this production is estimated at half a million tons.

On December 23,  Prime Minister Eng. Emad Khamis met with Members of the People's Assembly (Syrian Parliament) for the governorate of Sweida and discussed with them a number of issues related to improving the service and developments in the governorate.

The meeting tackled the importance of the integrative role between the members of parliament and governmental organizations to assess the economic, service, social and educational requirements of Sweida.

The MPs stressed the necessity of delivering heating oil to all the people of the governorate, improving the electricity supplies, compensating farmers for agricultural damages as a result of weather conditions and marketing the apple crop.

The Prime Minister said that the government continues to rely on itself and benefits from all natural, agricultural, artisan, and industrial potential to counter the unilateral coercive measures imposed on the Syrian people and to secure the requirements of the homeland.

 O. al-Mohammad