Investing in 12,000 hectares in the Damascus countryside and planning to cultivate about 19,700 hectares with wheat

Damascus countryside (ST): The invested areas of arable land in the Damascus countryside reached 146,763 hectares, an increase of about 12,000 hectares over previous years, according to the Director of Agriculture in the Damascus Countryside, Engineer Irfan Ziyadeh.

Ziyadeh explained in a statement that the invested areas are distributed over 81,079 hectares irrigated and the rest is rain-fed, pointing out that the governorate’s plan for the wheat crop for the next season amounts to 19,690 hectares, barley 4,751 hectares, and 4,025 hectares of various legumes, while the planned areas of vegetables and summer crops amounted to 6,631 hectares.

The director of agriculture in the Damascus countryside indicated that the cotton cultivation plan for the next season has been expanded to an area of 937 hectares in Eastern Ghouta after the success of the experiment of introducing it this season and the expansion of sunflower cultivation, as it was planned to cultivate 2,238 hectares.

Ziyadeh pointed out that the agricultural organizing document had begun to be granted to farmers at the beginning of last September, and the necessary measures were taken to grant it so that farmers could obtain agricultural production requirements, especially diesel fuel, indicating that the process of automating the distribution of agricultural diesel fuel is continuing to secure production requirements in an optimal manner.

K.Q.