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GIEWS Country Brief: Syrian Arab Republic - 04-May-2021 Format • High costs of inputs hinder agricultural activities • Cereal harvest in 2021 likely to be below average • About 12.4 million food insecure in 2020, as economic challenges and rapid currency depreciation decrease purchasing power Erratic rainfall and abnormal temperatures affected main eastern cereal producing areas Sowing of the 2021 wheat crop, for harvest from mid-June, was completed last December. Barley is harvested from May. Across the country, the first substantial rainfall of the season was recorded with a delay in November. Subsequently, well-distributed average to above-average precipitation amounts benefited crop development in the western part of the country. In the eastern governorates, including Hasakeh as well as parts of Raqqa, Aleppo and Deir-zor, which cumulatively provide about 80 percent of the annual wheat and barley production, rainfall has been irregular and vast swatches of land ha

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