{"id":63683,"date":"2021-08-18T14:58:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=63683"},"modified":"2021-08-18T14:58:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:58:06","slug":"syrian-agriculture-minister-attributes-failure-to-sanctions-climate-change-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/63683\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Agriculture Minister attributes failure to sanctions, climate change, smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) \u2013 <\/strong>On Tuesday, Syrian Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Hassan Qatna attributed the failure of plans of the Ministry of Agriculture in 2020 to \u201cexternal factors beyond his ministry\u2019s will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The minister\u2019s speech came in conjunction with the new agriculture plan for the coming season released by the Damascus government to \u201climit cultivable areas, and gain agricultural production that guarantees food security, create new areas for production, reconsider support methods and complete the reform of irrigation networks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">International sanctions and the economic embargo deprived them of the opportunity to purchase the needed quantities of fertilizers from abroad, in a statement to &#8220;Russian Federal News Agency&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Areas held by the Syrian government are suffering from severe shortage of wheat and floor despite all previous official statements which claimed that the government can secure the living basics, especially bread. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, climate change, which has become a strategic factor, affected crops as a result of the lack of rainfall during the current year, with more than 70% of cultivated lands suffering from water shortage, according to Qatna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the past years, the Syrian government resorted to international tenders to secure wheat, and in 2020 they bought 675 tons of wheat from Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Qatna stressed that smuggling agriculture production to neighboring countries worsened the condition in the government-held areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reporting by Aram Abdullah<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Hassan Qatna attributed the failure of plans of the Ministry of Agriculture in 2020 to \u201cexternal factors beyond his ministry\u2019s will.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":63684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-syria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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