Hodeida - Saba:
The local authority, the Agricultural Society and the Agricultural Extension Office in the Mansouriya district of Hodeida province, launched on Saturday the distribution of wheat seeds to a number of farmers in the district.
The directors of the directorate, Amer Ali and the Agricultural Extension Office, Ibrahim Qalaas, the executive director of the Agricultural Society, Mohammed Sharaf, the loan officer Abdullah Rajhi, and the seed unit, Abdo Hataba, handed over the seeds to 12 farmers in order to try wheat cultivation in the directorate.
The director of the directorate explained that the distribution of wheat seeds to the targeted farmers comes within the framework of the tendency to cultivate this crop in the agricultural fields of Mansouriya district to achieve self-sufficiency in cereal crops.
The harvest included the fields of 95 farmers with 30 tons and 644 kilograms of the expected amount of sesame in the directorate in an area estimated at 246 acres.
The executive director of the agricultural cooperative association in the directorate, Mohammed Sharaf, explained that the association is working to help farmers in marketing agricultural crops, including sesame, according to a plan that contributes to encouraging farmers in order to increase production.
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