“In the garden or in the orchard.” Syrian Agriculture Minister calls for planting “every meter” in the country

The Syrian Minister of Agriculture, Hassan Qatna, asked to invest all the land, no matter how small, and plant “every square meter in the garden or orchard”, especially with wheat, whose availability the country suffers from a crisis.

“We are now under unlimited economic pressure, and our food means our existence,” Kattana said on her personal Facebook page, referring to what the country is experiencing, which she described as “a time of scarcity, need and pressure.”

Qatana explained that the solution to face the ordeal is “to invest every agricultural land growing wheat with the available production requirements.”

He urged Qatana to cultivate even without the availability of fertilizers, or with tools, even if they were expensive, which seemed an indirect response to many criticisms of him after his previous post with the same content, as many commented that the farmer knows what it must do, but the government must provide inputs. Production, especially fertilizers and fuels, which is one of the main challenges due to the scarcity and high prices of these inputs.

This is what Qatana was referring to, saying in his post today that agriculture without fertilizers will yield less production by around 15%, but that would be better than not producing: “When we don’t grow we lose all production.”

He added that the purchase of production supplies at high prices will be sold at a profit, not a loss.

Our cats reiterated the need to cultivate every land, saying: “If we planted every square meter in our garden and in our garden, we would produce wheat from which we would eat bread, bulgur wheat, semolina and freekeh, and we would provide fodder for sheep and chickens we would raise them” .

He urged Qatana to “cultivate all lands, no matter how small or large, and we tend to grow wheat under trees and in all places of agricultural stability.”

The minister’s call for cotton was welcomed, while some farmers commented on the importance of fertilizer availability and the indication that the yield from production without fertilizers would be less than covering production costs.

It is noteworthy that Syria is experiencing a serious crisis in the availability of wheat, which is manifested in the decrease in the quantities of bread that are produced daily, scenes of severe overcrowding in front of the ovens and the adoption by the government of rationing the distribution of bread according to the number of family members, so that the proportion of one person does not exceed three loaves a day.

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Syrian Prime Minister Hussein Arnous stated in a meeting with the Federation of Trade Unions that the amount of wheat purchased by the government is only a month and a half enough for the production of bread.

Osama younes

Source: RT

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