The Minister of Agriculture in Al-Assad government, Muhammad Hassan Qatana, claimed that cooperation with Russia has entered a new stage through the scientific research sector on animal embryos, in addition to a series of understandings and memoranda of cooperation in the fields of manufacturing tractors and agricultural tests.

The Russian Sputnik website quoted Qatana as saying: "We asked Russian friends to help us secure the necessary equipment and laboratories to examine exportable agricultural products, which would contribute to verifying the impact of the remaining insecticides on them, and identifying the insect injuries or diseases that may have befallen them,"

Qatana revealed that the regime government imported 90 thousand tons (soybean meal) from Russian Federation, and it was distributed as part of the feed mixes for poultry farmers, expecting that this would contribute to reducing the obstacles facing the white meat production sector in the regime areas, and providing them to citizens at lower prices than.

The Minister of Agriculture revealed that the regime's government is seeking to push cooperation into other strategic areas, including securing agricultural machinery, especially agricultural tractors, which we have had a shortage of numbers as a result of the war, confirming the loss of approximately 35,000 agricultural tractors.