Nearly 1.24 million hectares cultivated with wheat, 1.2 million hectares with barley

Damascus, SANA-The process of planting wheat and barley crops in all provinces has been completed, as the areas cultivated with the wheat crop for this season amounted to 1,249,584 hectares, according to Director of Planning and International Cooperation at the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Eng. Nazek al-Ali.

Al-Ali added in a statement “The irrigated areas cultivated with wheat amounted to 578,998 hectares, and 670,586 hectares were cultivated under rainfed conditions, while the area cultivated with wheat in safe areas amounted to 546,873 hectares.”

1,193,763 hectares have been cultivated with barley crop, with an implementation rate of 87 percent, of which 438,242 hectares are in safe areas, while the amount of wheat seed distributed reached 53,681 tons, Director of Plant Production at the Ministry of Agriculture, Eng. Ahmed Haidar stated.

Haidar added that the area cultivated with wheat amounted to 74 percent of the approved plan for the total area, while it reached 91 percent in safe areas.

He noted that the areas cultivated with medicinal and aromatic crops amounted to 38,918 hectares.

Ruaa al-Jazaeri