Certainly is a terrible time to be a farmer in Syria.
Locusts, drought, exploitation and bombs: A Syrian harvest
JUN. 6, 2016
AMMAN: It is harvest time for Syria’s northern wheat and barley fields, but for farmers battling drought, pestilence, war and economic hardship, the season is yielding meager returns.
“This year is considered a drought year because of the lack of rainfall, and irrigation costs are exorbitant,” Mudeen al-Musa, a northeast Hama farmer told Syria Direct. “Farming is our only livelihood, and our losses are huge.”
The past three months have brought unusually low rainfall to most of Syria, as shown in a mappublished last month by the Regional Food Security Analysis Network, an initiative by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and iMMAP, an international data collection and analysis non-profit organization. By contrast, 2015 brought the best rainfall in years to Syria, producing higher yields of wheat than previous years but still significantly below the pre-war average.
“This year is one of the driest,” Maher Abu Faisal, a northeast Hama farmer told Syria Direct.
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Locusts, drought, exploitation and bombs: A Syrian harvest?
Locusts, drought, exploitation and bombs: A Syrian harvest
JUN. 6, 2016
AMMAN: It is harvest time for Syria’s northern wheat and barley fields, but for farmers battling drought, pestilence, war and economic hardship, the season is yielding meager returns.
“This year is considered a drought year because of the lack of rainfall, and irrigation costs are exorbitant,” Mudeen al-Musa, a northeast Hama farmer told Syria Direct. “Farming is our only livelihood, and our losses are huge.”
The past three months have brought unusually low rainfall to most of Syria, as shown in a mappublished last month by the Regional Food Security Analysis Network, an initiative by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and iMMAP, an international data collection and analysis non-profit organization. By contrast, 2015 brought the best rainfall in years to Syria, producing higher yields of wheat than previous years but still significantly below the pre-war average.
“This year is one of the driest,” Maher Abu Faisal, a northeast Hama farmer told Syria Direct.
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Locusts, drought, exploitation and bombs: A Syrian harvest?