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SYRIA 2025. Farmers in Syria face dry winter season

4 November 2025. Salameya, the Syrian Arab Republic.
Jalal Hamoud, FAO National Food Security Expert, Abdulla Al Derzi, farmer, discuss this cultivation season’s situation, the dire challenges farmers are facing and the sever drought conditions which are forcing farmers not to plant winter crops this season.

11/04/2025

Country or Territory Syria

File size 4.89 MB

Unique ID UF1B7G8

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Background Information The vulnerable farmers across the Syrian Arab Republic have faced this year the most severe drought for four decades, affecting harshly their winter crop production (2024-25: wheat, barley and other) by more than 50 percent decline comparing to pre-crisis levels. Now that farmers are preparing for cultivation season 2025-26, they worry about lower rates of rainfall and limited access to water resources, forcing them to either seek costly alternatives to save their only source of livelihoods, or to abandon farming activities to find any other work opportunities.