{"id":344518,"date":"2025-01-15T08:40:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T05:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=344518"},"modified":"2025-01-15T08:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T05:40:53","slug":"ministry-of-agriculture-ksrelief-discuss-situation-of-agricultural-areas-in-most-need-for-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=344518","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Agriculture, KSRelief discuss situation of agricultural areas in most need for relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Damascus, SANA- The situation of agricultural areas in most need for relief in Syria and joint agricultural projects were the main points of discussion during a meeting that brought together Minister of Agriculture in the caretaker government, Mohammad Taha al-Ahmad and a delegation from King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Works (KSRelief).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/55.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-344520 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/55.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minister al-Ahmad said that agriculture in Syria used to contribute to 28% of the GDP and employ 30% of the workforce before it had been subjected to systematic destruction at the hands of the former regime over the previous years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He pointed out that many agricultural projects are in need of restoration and rehabilitation, especially government and private irrigation projects, particularly in Ghouta area in Damascus countryside and several other provinces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Minister proposed establishing food projects as well as packaging and canning projects, supplying livestock with feed, and providing grants or financial facilities to rural families to start projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In turn, the KSRelief delegation requested information on the agricultural areas in most need for assistance to begin work there, and on what can be provided for Syrian agriculture, especially income-generating projects in rural Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The delegation commended the quality of Syrian agricultural products, noting that many businessmen in Saudi Arabia wish to make investments in agriculture and other fields in Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manar Salameh\/Ruaa al-Jazaeri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA- The situation of agricultural areas in most need for relief in Syria and joint agricultural projects were the main points of discussion during a meeting that brought together Minister of Agriculture in the caretaker government, Mohammad Taha al-Ahmad and a delegation from King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Works (KSRelief). Minister al-Ahmad &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":344519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,115,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-local","category-news-bar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344521,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344518\/revisions\/344521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/344519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}