{"id":367210,"date":"2025-08-04T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=367210"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:25:21","slug":"cotton-cultivation-continues-in-al-ghab-area-despite-economic-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=367210","title":{"rendered":"Cotton cultivation continues in al-Ghab area despite economic challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hama, SANA- Despite the decline in financial returns and farmers shifting toward alternative crops that are less costly and more profitable, cotton cultivation continues in al-Ghab area this season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250804_080849_667.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-367224 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250804_080849_667-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250804_080849_667-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250804_080849_667.jpeg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director of the General Commission for Management and Development of al-Ghab Plain Eng. Abdulaziz al-Qassem, explained that although cotton was not included in this year\u2019s summer agricultural plan due to drought and water shortages, several farmers in al-Ghab Plain have continued planting it, relying on their previous experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He noted that the areas planted with cotton this season in the region&#8217;s lands did not exceed 90 dunums, and this cultivation could be promising if irrigation water is provided and support for the crop is secured, by delivering production requirements to farmers before the planting date in addition to raising the price of receiving cotton.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-367210 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?attachment_id=367225'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250804_080849_051.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250804_080849_051.jpeg 660w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250804_080849_051-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?attachment_id=367226'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250804_080849_201.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-367226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250804_080849_201.jpeg 660w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250804_080849_201-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-367226'>\n\t\t\t\tDCIM100MEDIADJI_0879.JPG\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?attachment_id=367227'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250804_080849_544.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250804_080849_544.jpg 660w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250804_080849_544-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?attachment_id=367228'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250804_080849_561.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250804_080849_561.jpeg 660w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250804_080849_561-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nisreen Othman \/ Manar Salameh<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hama, SANA- Despite the decline in financial returns and farmers shifting toward alternative crops that are less costly and more profitable, cotton cultivation continues in al-Ghab area this season. Director of the General Commission for Management and Development of al-Ghab Plain Eng. Abdulaziz al-Qassem, explained that although cotton was not included in this year\u2019s summer &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":367223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,510,455],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-money-and-work","category-hama","category-governorates-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367210"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367230,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367210\/revisions\/367230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/367223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}