Ar-Raqqa – Monday, May 30, 2022 – The SRTF today announced a major delivery of agricultural tools and tractors for phase five of its intervention “Agricultural Support to Farmers in Ar-Raqqa Governorate – Phase V”.

The delivery consisted of 19 tractors and 126 tools, including 12 disc plows, 12 chisel-type cultivators with their spare parts, 12 tractor-mounted ridges, 12 tractor-trailed mechanical seed drills with their spare parts, 12 tractor-trailed seed drills with spare parts. 12 tractor-mounted fertilizer and seed spreaders, 12 tractor-mounted boom sprayers with spare parts, 12 agricultural tippers, 12 mobile grain trailers (6-ton capacity), 12 rotary mowers with spare parts, spare parts, 6 square balers with spare parts, 480,000 meters of baler twine.

These items were delivered to six farmers’ cooperatives in five different communities where each cooperative received a set of agricultural tools comprising a set of two of the aforementioned items.

This intervention has a budget of 4.6 million euros and an estimated duration of six months. A total of 1,100 farms will receive support under this intervention, which will ultimately contribute to increased food security and livelihoods in the targeted areas.

For more information on the project, please see:

Agricultural support to farmers in the governorate of Ar-Raqqa – Phase V

For more information on the SRTF visit:

http://www.srtfund.org

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