FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 11/00 - SYRIA (6 November)
Recent light showers in parts of the country prompted planting of winter grains. Sowing of the 2001 wheat and barley crops is expected to continue until mid-January next year. Crop and livestock production in 2000 has recovered from the drought reduced harvest in 1999. The 2000 wheat production, estimated at 3.6 million tonnes, is about 31 percent above last year’s crop and about average. Barley production, which is almost entirely rainfed, is estimated at 800 000 tonnes, double last year’s crop, but still about 28 percent below the previous five-year average.
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