In a country where millions depend on bread as a staple food to survive, crops from Syria's northeastern breadbasket region of Hasakeh are in high demand AFP
France 24: In Syria's breadbasket, Kurds and regime battle for wheat
Gazing over his wheat field in northeastern Syria, farmer Adel Othman expects a bumper crop this year, but two rival authorities squabbling over his harvest have dashed his enthusiasm.
After successive droughts and eight years of civil war, both the local Kurdish authorities and the Damascus regime are desperate to buy up his region's produce to feed their people and maintain the peace.
In a country where millions depend on bread as a staple food to survive, both want the wheat grown in the country's northeastern breadbasket region of Hasakeh.
Farmers in the Kurdish-held region like Othman have been caught up in the middle, with only two potential sellers, neither offering a satisfactory price.
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WNU Editor: Bread is a staple food in the Middle East. It is no surprise that everyone wants it.
1 comment:
I see then the Kurds control wheat and oil and gas in Syria. That makes them the most important fighting group in Syria and they are backed by the USA(for now). Seems to me Assad ought to negotiate and embrace them given Turkey's desire to keep carving Syrian territory into its own control.
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