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'Worst Climate Conditions in 60 Years': Syria's Wheat Supply in Peril
- Farmers in Syria face a severe wheat production crisis in 2025 due to nearly 14 years of conflict and the worst drought in 60 years affecting key agricultural regions.
- The civil war, which began in 2011, severely damaged Syria's economy and agricultural output, with a brief winter and reduced rainfall impacting nearly all rain-dependent wheat crops and causing irrigated wheat yields to drop by 30 to 40 percent.
- The Damascus government anticipates harvesting between 300,000 and 350,000 tonnes of wheat this year and has announced prices ranging from $290 to $320 per tonne, along with an additional $130 incentive. Meanwhile, the Kurdish-led authorities have proposed a higher payment of $420 per tonne, which includes a $70 incentive.
- The shortfall in wheat harvest is projected to be between 2.5 and 2.7 million tonnes, putting approximately 16.3 million Syrians in danger of food insecurity. Farmers such as Jamshid Hassu have voiced concerns that continuing their work will be impossible without external assistance.
- Authorities aim to maintain stable food supplies by bringing in wheat from abroad and coordinating purchases to avoid duplication, while rural farmers face severe hardship without immediate aid as groundwater levels drop sharply.
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Rival Syrian and Kurdish producers are scrambling for shrinking wheat harvests as the worst drought in decades follows a devastating war, pushing more than 16 million people toward food insecurity. "The country has not seen such bad climate conditions in 60 years," said Haya Abu Assaf, assistant to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
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Syria's wheat war: drought fuels food crisis for 16 million
Rival Syrian and Kurdish producers are scrambling for shrinking wheat harvests as the worst drought in decades follows a devastating war, pushing more than 16 million people toward food insecurity.
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