Good harvest requires AANES to open yards to receive wheat in Raqqa
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – As centers set to receive wheat harvest in Raqqa, north Syria, are almost full, the Agricultural Community Development Company of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) has opened new centers and yards for this purpose, an official said on Tuesday.
Abundant harvest this year following good rainfalls, resulted in a crisis in centers of receiving wheat due to high turnout by farmers to deliver their crops to the AANES after the latter set the price of each ton of wheat at $430.
Ahmad al-Ali, co-chair of Raqqa Agricultural Community Development Company, told North Press that yards used for drying corn have been set for receiving bags of wheat from farmers after the centers became full.
Al-Ali added that the storage capacity of the centers has reached about 80 percent, so yards would be open to receive wheat.
He stressed that the Agricultural Community Development Company would receive the entire harvest, and prepare and check bills to be handed over to the Finance Board to pay the farmers.
However, the official has not revealed quantities of the received wheat until Monday.
The AANES was first formed in 2014 in the Kurdish-majority regions of Afrin, Kobani and Jazira in northern Syria following the withdrawal of the government forces. Later, it was expanded to Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) defeated ISIS militarily there.