An Expanded Meeting to Develop the Agricultural Sector in Homs and Field Visits to Assess Challenges and Solutions
An Expanded Meeting to Develop the Agricultural Sector in Homs and Field Visits to Assess Challenges and Solutions
In the presence of the Chairman of the Federation of Syrian Chambers of Agriculture, Eng. Haroutun Khattab, the member of the Executive Bureau for the Agricultural Sector in Homs, Eng. Tammam Al-Sibai, the Director of Homs Agriculture, Dr. Khaled Al-Tawila, the Head of the Agricultural Engineers Syndicate branch in Homs, Eng. Abdul Latif Barjawi, and the Chairman of the Homs Chamber of Agriculture, Eng. Tarif Al-Mansour, the Board of Directors of the Homs Chamber of Agriculture held an expanded meeting with the committees for agricultural products export, beekeeping, poultry, and olive presses.
The most prominent highlights of the meeting and field activities included:
• Supporting Local Production: Discussing the challenges facing the agricultural sector and emphasizing the support for investment to ensure sustainability and boost both the plant and livestock sectors, with a particular focus on supporting agricultural services.
• Sector Status and Difficulties: Reviewing the reality of agricultural production (both plant and livestock) in the governorate, while proposing appropriate solutions to overcome accumulated obstacles.
• Important Decisions and Focal Points:
• Discussing the contract farming decree.
• Exporting agricultural products and finding guaranteed solutions to provide seeds, pesticides, fertilizers, fuel, and other essential supplies.
• Integrating with agricultural families to increase production efficiency.
• Field Visits: The activities also included field visits to a feed mill, an olive press, a chick hatchery, and a broiler breeder farm, where they met with owners to listen to production difficulties and discuss proposed solutions
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