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Syria: Syria Agriculture Profile 2012

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Syria Agriculture Profile 2012

08/12/2010  Output of the 2010 winter cereal crops put well below average level
Planting of the 2011 winter cereal crops is about to begin.

Production of 2010 winter cereal crops is estimated at 3.3 million tonnes of wheat, about 18 percent the below previous year. The low output is due to a widespread infestation of yellow rust that, coupled with some frosts in late March, has severely affected wheat yields. The disease outbreak was particularly strong on locally developed soft wheat varieties and concentrated in the north-eastern province of al-Hassakeh. Low rainfall in some rain-fed areas had also a negative impact on wheat yields.

Overall, the aggregate cereal production in 2010 is estimated at 4.2 million tonnes, about 9 percent below the last five years average and 15 percent below the good output of 5.0 million tonnes obtained in 2009.

Cereal import requirements expected to decline in 2010/11, but would still be above average
Early forecast for cereal import requirements - mainly wheat for food use and maize and barley for feed use – in marketing year 2010/11 (July/June) is put at about 4 million tonnes. At this level, imports are above average, but lower than previous year when, despite the good production, they were relatively high to replenish stocks that were depleted during the drought-affected 2008/09 winter season. Imports of rice are forecast at a high of 300 000 tonnes, similar to the last two years, partly in response to the additional demand from the over one million Iraqi refugees in the country.