The Ministry of Agriculture promised farmers to support the cultivation of maize as well as wheat within the ministry’s plan to encourage the cultivation of this crop, and reduce import costs.
As if the production requirements are provided to the producers, and the crop can be extracted from them at reasonable prices after studying the costs of cultivating the dunams.
The Ministry of Agriculture had announced this initiative from the place of cultivation of this crop in the Al-Ghab region, following a workshop held yesterday in Salhab area, in the presence of some of those in charge of this cultivation, as reported by Tishreen newspaper.
The ministry is seeking to find alternatives to importing yellow maize, especially after the Ukrainian war and the daily rise in feed prices, including yellow maize as a main ingredient for poultry feed. Because the price change causes the daily departure of poultry breeders from work, due to their inability to secure the costs of poultry, and the result is an unprecedented rise in the prices of eggs and broilers, in a way that has made it outside the tables of the majority of Syrians.
The Director General of the General Authority for the Management and Development of the Al-Ghab, Awfa Wassouf, described to “hashtag” the trend to expand the cultivation of yellow corn, a step in the right direction, in order to secure fodder materials and return stability to the market for animal products.
He indicated that the quantities estimated to be produced are related to the area to be cultivated, and the extent of the farmers’ appetite for agriculture, but he expects to double the cultivated area in the Al-Ghab area for this year, after its cultivation has become economically feasible.
As for the problems that could hinder the demand for its cultivation, Wassouf said that there are many requirements for this crop, including: available water, and production requirements.
And the type of seed used in agriculture, is it a hybrid or a local one, because the return of the economic hybrid is three times the local.
And he indicated that the Ministry of Agriculture, during the past two years, made extraordinary efforts to restore many crops, encourage their cultivation and secure their production requirements.
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