With video After the heavy rains .. The Jordan River overflows and drowns dozens of citrus farms

Weather of Arabia - Sinan Khalaf - Despite the heavy rains that have rained in the region during the past days, which herald a good agricultural season, these high rains have had a negative impact on the farms located on both banks of the Aden River, where the water level of the river rose to drown citrus farms It damages many trees and vegetables grown between them and fish tanks.

The farmer Khaled Al-Bishtawi said in an exclusive interview with the newspaper "Al-Ghad", that the high water level in the river has become a great danger to their farms, given the occurrence of the accident every year without the concerned authorities finding any radical solutions to limit their effects on the farms.

He pointed out that the losses of farmers are constantly increasing due to natural disasters and political conditions, which are represented by high temperatures, frosts and marketing bottlenecks for agricultural products, due to the lack of land export routes to Lebanon, Turkey and Europe.

The farmer, Muhammad Al-Waked, confirmed that the high level of the river's water caused a flood that flooded tens of acres of agricultural land adjacent to the river, and led to the damage of agricultural equipment and irrigation pipelines, which would lead to a decline in production and the bankruptcy of the small farmer, who could not work to re-work Farm under the difficult conditions they are suffering from

The flood caused damage to all of the crops that were affected by citrus and sugar cane trees, not to mention the vegetables and fish farms in them.

The farmer Ali Al-Talawy stressed that the water that flowed in large quantities from the river came on all agricultural lands with a depth of 30 meters from the lands adjacent to the river's stream, expecting that the amount of damages will increase with the continuation of the high level of water that started to reach the dirt fountains erected by farmers. To reach more spaces

It is noteworthy that the Jordan River, with a length of about 251 km, while its plain is about 360 square kilometers, stems from the confluence of three tributaries, which are Baniyas coming from Syria, the countries coming from northern Palestine and the Hasbani coming from Lebanon, forming the Upper Jordan River that passes in Lake Hula In historic Palestine, it then empties into the Sea of Galilee, which was formed by the occurrence of the Great Rift Valley

Despite numerous attempts to communicate with the spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture, Lawrence Al-Majali, to explain the agricultural procedures from the flood and the losses, all these attempts were unsuccessful.