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<\/a><\/p>\nMinister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Eng. Mohammad Hassan Qatana said that the rural markets are linked to production units created, in cooperation with FAO, in production areas where a group of rural families markets their products directly to the markets of the provinces.<\/p>\n
He added that the products are from all Syrian provinces to be sold to the consumers at prices set by the producer.<\/p>\n
He indicated that the products exhibited are subjected to sanitary control, as a preliminary step before granting their producers accreditation certificates.<\/p>\n
The market includes 72 products manufactured by some 400 peasant families and these numbers can be increased daily, a according to the head of the rural development, Raeda Ayoub , pointing out the importance of opening the market in Damascus due to the absence of those products in the capital.<\/p>\n
For his part, FAO Chief experts Alfredo Impiglia indicated that the market is a way to support the rural women and encourage them to market their traditional food and textiles products and other ones.<\/p>\n
In turn, FAO assistant representative for programs affairs, Haya Abu Assaf clarified that the FAO has trained the rural women on how to establish small production projects and their marketing methods.<\/p>\n