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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Maha El Dahan

Exclusive-Climate change, conflict decimate Syria's grain crop - UN FAO

FILE PHOTO: Farmer Imad al-Sayyed harvests wheat in a field in Deir Khabieh, Damascus suburbs, Syria June 17, 2021. REUTERS/Yamam al Shaar

Climate change, a faltering economy and residual security issues have decimated Syria's 2022 grain crop, leaving the majority of its farmers in a precarious position, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.

    Syria's 2022 wheat harvest amounted to around 1 million tonnes, down some 75% from pre-crisis volumes, while barley was almost non-existent, Mike Robson, FAO's Syria Representative told Reuters.

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