The decline in cotton cultivation threatens the General Company for Spinning in Hama in terms of the lack of ginning cotton needed for the manufacture of cotton yarns, where it was planned, according to the Director General Fawaz Halabi, that the quantity is 4800 tons, allocated to 2100 tons only. Halabi added: `` Our production of cotton yarn reaches 5700 tons.We need 8000 tons of ginned cotton.And despite all the problems that accompany the spinning process, all the spun yarn sold, and the price of a ton of them to one million and 125 thousand pounds.

 

In the agricultural sector, the sources of the General Authority for Forestry said that the cultivation of the cotton crop has fallen a lot since the beginning of the crisis, and the cultivation of the crop is no longer popular as it was before the crisis for several reasons, led by the high production costs and wages of labor, Water imports, which are scarce, as cotton is considered a water-intensive crop, and needs more than 11 irrigations according to climatic conditions and soil quality, which increases the cost prices.

 

Al-Fidaa Grocery Manager Hisham Kurdi said that the cotton crop was no longer the same as before the crisis. .

 

Al-Kurdi went on to say that now we are only ginning 802 tons coming from Deir Ezzor, and we will re-seed it to plant the monastery to benefit from its seeds as a nucleus for growing the crop next year. For conservative gins and other gins.

 

He pointed out that the need of the textile factories and yarn company outweighs all cotton production.

 

Source: Baath