{"id":130045,"date":"2025-09-22T08:18:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=130045"},"modified":"2025-09-22T08:18:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:18:35","slug":"cotton-production-drops-in-syrias-hasakah-due-to-extreme-heatwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/130045\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton production drops in Syria&#8217;s Hasakah due to extreme heatwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) \u2013 <\/strong>Farmers in Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria, reported on Monday a sharp decline in cotton production this season as severe heatwaves devastated crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shahin Mohammed, a farmer from Hasakah\u2019s countryside, said the average yield this year fell to 100\u2013200 kilograms per acre, down from the usual 300\u2013400 kilograms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe sharp rise in temperatures, which at times reached nearly 50 degrees Celsius, caused cotton flowers to fall before reaching maturity, leading to a significant drop in output,\u201d Mohammed told North Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He voiced concern over looming financial losses, as farmers await the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) to announce the official purchase price for marketing the crop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In August, Mustafa Ibrahim, co-chair of the General Cotton Corporation of the AANES, projected cotton production in northeastern Syria would reach 75,000 tons this year, according to a statement published on the Administration\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This season, cotton was cultivated on about 250,000 acres of land across the region\u2014roughly half the area planted last year. The AANES has opened three centers to receive the crop within its territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reporting by Dilsoz Youssef<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Editing by Jwan Shekaki<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) \u2013 Farmers in Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria, reported on Monday a sharp decline in cotton production this season as severe heatwaves devastated crops. Shahin Mohammed, a farmer from Hasakah\u2019s countryside, said the average yield this year fell to 100\u2013200 kilograms per acre, down from the usual 300\u2013400 kilograms. \u201cThe sharp rise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":130046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,39,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-home","category-syria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cotton production drops in Syria&#039;s Hasakah due to extreme heatwaves<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) \u2013 Farmers in Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria, reported on Monday a sharp 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