Almond picking season begins in Sweida province

Sweida, SANA-Almond picking operations have begun in Sweida province for the current season, amid estimates of production exceeding 2,500 tons.

The director of Agriculture in Sweida, engineer. Ayham Hamed, said in a statement to SANA reporter that the harvesting operations started at the low elevation areas and will gradually moving to include the rest of the areas planted with this tree in the coming days.

He pointed out that the total areas planted with almond trees during the current agricultural season reached 29,170 hectares, compared to about 28,100 hectares last season.

Manar Salameh

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