{"id":69597,"date":"2021-12-22T11:17:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T11:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=69597"},"modified":"2021-12-22T11:17:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T11:17:47","slug":"syrian-wheat-at-its-lowest-in-50-years-fao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/69597\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian wheat at its lowest in 50 years, FAO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 <\/strong>Syrian wheat production for 2021 was at its lowest level in 50 years, after a dry year, the high costs of productions, and the fatal economic conditions due to ten years of conflict, according to a recent report by the United Nations\u2019 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cImmediate action is required to support the agricultural sector for its next season,\u201d the FAO stressed in its report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without updated estimates for 2021, WFP estimated that about 12.4 million people (60%) were food insecure in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Syria witnessed a remarkable decline in the production of wheat and barley \u2014 two staple foods for Syrians after the Syrian war, wheat production in 2021 is estimated at around 1.05 million tons, \ufeffdown from 2.8 million in 2020 and only one-quarter of the pre-crisis average of 4.1 million tons (during the period 2002-2011), while barley production stood at just 10% of 2020\u2019s harvest levels, according to FAO report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 60% of wheat production lies outside government held areas, in the Jazira region in northeast Syria which is run by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), also known as the Syrian Food Basket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jazira region is witnessed a decline in the production of strategic and important crops (wheat, barley, lentils), due to the drought and lower water levels along the Euphrates banks, Khabur River and other local rivers, which are down by at least five meters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the start of the Syrian conflict, Turkey has cut off water violating international humanitarian law, and exacerbating already existing climate-linked impacts, which has fatal consequences on the lives and livelihoods of Syrian farmers in the country\u2019s northeast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 Syrian wheat production for 2021 was at its lowest level in 50 years, after a dry year, the high costs of productions, and the fatal economic conditions due to ten years of conflict, according to a recent report by the United Nations\u2019 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). \u201cImmediate action is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69597","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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