Nov 7 Economy

خسائر كبيرة تكبدها مزارعو التفاح في حمص
Heavy losses incurred by apple growers in Homs (Apple production decreased by 55% in Homs province due to bad weather and subsequent spread of disease.)
al-Baath, its cache
2011.10.31
Provinces - Homs

Nearing the marketing of apples in Homs season this year to finish .. «al-Baath» that this year's season was below the middle, and his main concern Aajelb expression of the popular .. Where it was estimated that the production of Homs for this year of the rule apples to exceed 50 thousand tons against 110 thousand tons last year, has contributed to several factors in the decline in production to maintain a private and Syria in general, the most important factors to bad weather, which seized control of the country at the time blossoms apple, which led to the emergence of numerous diseases in the apple tree, and the most important of scabies, cold, and the worm of the fruit, pulp and water in addition to the weakness of the effectiveness of drugs and agricultural pesticides in the Syrian market.

3.6 million tree

Apple tree cultivation is concentrated in the province of Homs B / / 3 key areas, they are al-Qusair and the center-west and Tall Kalakh, with an estimated cultivated area of ​​this tree is about 110 thousand medical acres of / 47 / watering thousand acres and 65 acres Baal .. The estimated number of fruit trees at about 3.6 million tree annual production is estimated at 110 thousand tons, if the weather conditions suitable time of flowers, that is equivalent to 26% of the total production from the fruit of apples in Syria, which was estimated at about 400 thousand tons annually, according to Statistical Abstract of the Ministry of Agriculture, and return to areas of apple cultivation in Homs has sources said the Agriculture Department of Homs that large tracts of land on the banks of the Orontes River region of the short-planted apples in recent years and most of Meroe, where the number of fruit trees in the region mentioned to nearly a million trees annual production conditions appropriate than 20 thousand tons, while this year not to exceed 10 thousand tons and is suffering from several diseases including: pulp and non-viability of water storage.

Apple Zuhr al-Qusair-

Biggest and most famous region growing apples, not at the level of Homs, but Syria is at the level of the back of the short and the surrounding villages, where rain and heavy snow and high altitude of 1050 meters above sea level.

Says Adil Said from the village of Rabah: season apple is the season the basic upon which the people of the village and nearby villages such as Kafraa, Faahil and Miqlis as it contributed to reducing unemployment in the surrounding villages and the village itself, work is in season apples to Aigv at specific months per year, but the session is damaged the whole year of the month of November through the end of October, from fertilizing, plowing after harvesting the end of the harvest fruits and packaged, cooled and packed and sent to the internal market or external He Said: Environment Rabah very suitable for growing apples Baal, where the surge from the sea, snow and frost and rain Winter also features apples Rabah flavor delicious and Baksaute and survival of several months in refrigerated storage and the season this year, said farmer happy: the farmer in this year incurred great losses season apples, Production was below the middle in addition to injuring trees illnesses many the most serious disease, scabies and ineffective medicines of agricultural pesticides in the pharmacies of agricultural.