Ministry of Agriculture, Aga Khan Network discuss enhancing cooperation relations, implementing new projects

The Minister of Agriculture Mohamed Hassan Qattana discussed with the residing representative of the Aga Khan Network in Syria, Ghaddfan Ajoub, the current cooperation between the two sides, ways to develop this cooperation and implement new projects.

Minister Qattana talked about implementing development projects characterized by sustainability and feasiblity and that achieve added value and contribute to improving the targeted societies, pointing to the need for the continuous evaluation of the implemented projects and their impact on the ground.

Qattana expressed the Ministry’s readiness to cooperate with the Aga Khan network in the forestry projects, by providing the necessary and suitable saplings and by cooperating in combating the diseases that affect olive trees.

 Qattana reviewed the projects that can be implemented and studied to include them in the cooperation program with the Aga Khan Network, including a project to secure modern agricultural machines at suitable costs to serve farmers, as well as other projects to rehabilitate the Al-Talula reserve as well as the oases of Zenobia and Palmyra.

In turn, Ajoub talked about the importance of developing the previously signed cooperation agreement to include all activities.

He pointed to the continuation of the project to combat the insects in the eastern Hama countryside and the project to restore the deteriorating pistachios fields, rehabilitate the forestry sites, reforestation of new sites, and the cultivation of pastoral plants in Salamiyah eastern area.

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