Jordan Valley Agriculture: There is no damage to the Jordan Valley crops due to the weather

Arab Weather - The Director of the Jordan Valley Agriculture, Eng. Bakr Al-Balawneh, said that the various protected and open crops in the Jordan Valley areas were not affected by the weather conditions associated with the prevailing depression.
Al-Balawneh added to (Petra) that committees from the directorate toured many farms today, Thursday, which showed that their crops were not affected by any damage due to the depression from heavy rains or accompanying winds, indicating that the wind speed during the past two days was light, which led to The safety of the greenhouse from rupture, in addition to the farmers following the agricultural instructions by tightly closing these houses and creating sewers to drain rain water into the farms.
Balawneh called on farmers to continue taking precautions in the coming days against the possibility of frost formation that usually follows depressions, by following well-known instructions, the most important of which is igniting dry manure and continuing supplementary irrigation.
The head of the Jordan Valley Farmers Union, Adnan al-Khaddam, said that the winds caused slight damage to a number of greenhouses in the Jordan Valley in the northern and central valleys, stressing the importance of recent rains in reviving farmers ’seasons by providing irrigation water in dams and preserving soil moisture and its positive repercussions on plantings. Vegetative and fruit trees.

Source: Jordan News Agency - Petra