This document summarizes Syria's successful efforts to achieve self-sufficiency in wheat production. Agriculture has historically contributed 16-24% to Syria's GDP. Wheat is the most important food crop, making up 35% of cropped area and 20% of crop production value. In the late 1980s, Syria faced difficulties providing enough flour and decided to become self-sufficient in wheat. This involved increasing irrigated and rain-fed wheat areas through policies supporting production planning, inputs/credit, irrigation, research, and marketing/prices. As a result of these policies, wheat production increased over 92% between 1990-2011, with productivity nearly doubling. Syria has now achieved over 98% self-sufficiency in wheat.
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Syria: Success story of whate self-sufficiency
1. Successful story of Syrian
self-sufficiency in wheat
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Security in Dry Areas
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Dr. Haitham Al Ashkar
SyrianArabRepublic
2. contents
The
importance of
agriculture
Food security
and poverty
in Syria
Agricultural
natural
resources
Wheat
importance and
agricultural policy
Lessons
learned
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3. Over the last
decade, the
contribution
to the
national GDP
ranged
between
16% and
24%
to the total
labor force
about 20%,
to the total
trade about
14%.
Provides raw
materials to
agro-
industry
business
4. 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Agriculture 24.1 19.7 17.5 18.7 16.2 19.7
Building & Construction 4.3 4.1 3.6 3.6 3.6 4.3
Finance & Insurance 4.7 5.4 5.4 5.3 5.4 5.6
Government Services 10.6 12.9 12.5 13.2 14.0 15.0
Mining & Manufacturing 23.7 23.3 23.2 22.6 24.5 22.4
Transport & Communication 11.3 11.9 12.5 12.3 12.9 11.8
Wholesale & Retail Trade 18.3 19.5 21.6 20.8 20.1 17.3
other sectors 3.0 3.2 3.7 3.5 3.4 3.8
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Contribution of the economic sectors of the national economy to Gross
Domestic Products at fixed prices between 2006 and 2011 (%)
24.1 16.2
5. Land use
cultivable,
6.068 (33%)
20% uncultivable
44% pastures and
steppes
3% forests
•invested area 5.7 million
hectares, 94% of cultivable
land, 24% irrigated, 56% rain-
fed land, 20% fallow land.
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Total Area
18.5
M.ha
6. Agro ecological zones in Syria
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7. Water resources
• Syria is one of the water-poor countries , like some other
countries in the region,
• Tenth 5-year plan showed that there is an average annual
water shortage of /1.727/ billion cubic meters and it reached
3.125 billion cubic meters in 2009
• That shortage is a result of:
• frequent drought seasons,
• irrational use of water, at farm level in particular,
• lack of incentives to reduce water consumption,
• high prices for intensive water-use crops, such as cotton and
sugar beet.
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8. Water resources cont.
• These factors caused:
• deeper water table of ground water,
• drying-up of some springs,
• Reducing the flaw of some rivers,
• Exposing some water resources to various levels of pollution.
• It is estimated that the water use is about 18 billion M3 , And
average water available is 15 billion M3
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10. Food security in Syria
• The UN/FAO World Food Summit (Rome 1996) defined
food security and its associated dimensions as follows:
“all people, at all times, have physical, social, and
economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to
meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an
active and healthy life”.
Dimensions of food security: Availability, Access, Stability,
Utilization.
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11. Food security Dimensions
• Food Availability
• self-sufficient in most of the agricultural products, and exports
many of Agr. products
• wheat, legumes, vegetables, fruits, olives and olive oil, and some
animal products.
• BUT, deficit in sugar and maize, a relatively slight shortage in
some dairy products, meat, vegetable oils, and barley.
• Accessibility
• quota of 1 kg sugar and 0.5 kg rice per capita per month at
subsidized prices.
• Opened quantity of Bread is also offered at a very subsidized
price that represents only 15-20% of production cost.
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12. • Stability
• To avoid the risk of food shortage, especially wheat, the Government
holds sufficient stocks that can feed the Syrian people for more than
one year, which guarantees avoiding chocks of wheat availability and
price volatility.
• Food Utilization
• Average per capita calorie intake increased from about 3000
kcal/day in 2000 to more than 3200 kcal /day in recent years, more
than 85% from vegetal sources.
• Per capita daily protein consumption increased from 74.8 to 86.7
grams/day with a significant increase of vegetal protein share.
• Per capita FAT consumption has declined from 104.5 grams /day in
2000 to 96 g / day in 2004, while the share of fat of plant sources
reached 76% .
In 2010, The Syrian Government adopted a National Program for Food
Security
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Food security Dimensions cont.
14. Self Sufficiency in Wheat
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15. The challenge and coping strategy
• Syria has experienced difficulties in providing sufficient
flour to the Syrian citizens in the late 80s of the last
century.
• To avoid that, a decision has been made at a high political
level, according to which the country must produce its
needs from wheat and the Government should insure the
availability of all requirements at due time and reasonable
prices to implement the decision.
• Accordingly, all related ministries and interested parties
have prepared plans to implement the decision.
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16. The Importance of Wheat
• The most important item of food basket
In 2011,
• wheat made up 35% of the cropped area
• 28% of the crop production
• 20% of the value of crop production
• 14% of the value of agricultural production
•
• To avoid the risk of drought, about 50% of wheat
cultivated in irrigated area.
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20. Wheat policies
Planning policy
Input and credit policies
Irrigation policy
Plant protection policy
Agricultural research and extension
policies
MAAR investment budget policy
Marketing and price policies
Trade policy
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21. Planning policy
• Top bottom initiative of the Annual Agricultural
Production Plan
• Local discussion of the Plan
• Bottom top process of formulation the Plan
• Endorsement of the Plan
• Agricultural license
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22. Input and credit policy
Credit policy, Agricultural Cooperative Bank, ACB
• Subsidized interest rate, 6% -8%
Cash loans per hectare
• SP15000 from wells,
• 11000 from surface water,
• 2500 rain-fed
• In-kind
• Seeds
• 250 kg/ha for irrigated areas from wells and surface water resources,
• 200 kg/ha in the rain-fed areas in zone1
• 150 kg/ha in the rain-fed areas in zone 2.
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24. Irrigation Policies
The Future vision indicates that “Water security is an essential tool to
achieve sustainable development”.
The Tenth Five-Year Plan adopted policies and methods related to
management and investment of water resources through:
enhancing water use efficiency, and preservation
Take all measures to control water pollution and find appropriate solutions.
Provide efficient institutional and legal frameworks and adequate financial
resources.
Enable relevant institutions to manage water resources in an integrated
manner covering real needs of rural communities, especially in remote and
poor areas, through an effective, rational and sustainable way.
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25. Water policies cont.
Engage economic planning of resource management and planning of
available water resources, as well as rationalize the use and development of
non-traditional sources of water to achieve the utmost possible use of
water.
Enhance awareness; disseminate information and education, support the
role of the private sector, community institutions, and water users in
controlling and managing water resources.
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26. Irrigation Policies
Conversion from traditional irrigation to modern irrigation
techniques:
establishing, in the Ministry of Agricultural and Agrarian
Reform, the National Fund for Conversion to Modern
Irrigation,
The capital of the fund is SP 52 Billion.
It provides farmers with long term loans at 4% interest
rate.
Moreover, farmers are exempted from 50% of the total
loan.
The converted area was about 23% of the total irrigated
area.
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27. Research and extension policies
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The research programs resulted in finding out:
irrigated durum wheat variety, sham7, 7.445 T/ha,
Rain-fed durum wheat, zon1, Bohoth 7, 4.843 T/ha
Irrigated soft wheat, sham8, 9 T/h
Rain-fed soft wheat, zone1, variety, Golan2, 4.576 T/h
28. Research and extension cont.
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In order to transfer the findings of the research
to the farm field a specific extension program is
delivered to wheat farmers to get the best results
of wheat in terms of quantity and quality.
29. Fertilizers 18%
Crop management 23%
Irrigation 27%
Improved varieties 32%
the impact of agricultural technologies on the increase
of wheat productivity
32. The impact of Agricultural Policies was positive on the increase
of wheat production, due to the development of both
horizontal and vertical dimensions,
between 1990 and 2012:
• The production increased by 74%.
• 74% due to improving in productivity
• 26% due to the expansion in area
• Statistics shows that the average ration of cultivated area to
planed area of wheat between 1996 and 2013 is 104%,
• the highest was 124%, in 2001, and the lowest was 82%, in
2013.
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Policy impacts analysis
34. PositiveImpactsofAgriculturalPolicies
Increasing cultivated land in both systems, rain-fed and
irrigated,
Achieving self sufficiency in many agricultural products
Increasing per capita calories intake.
Increasing the aggregate value of the agricultural production
Increasing the raw and processed agricultural exports share of
the total exports.
Developing rural infrastructure such as agricultural
roads, electricity, water, communication, storage, transport, etc.)
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35. NegativeImpacts of the AgriculturalPolicies
Deteriorate soil fertility, and contamination of soil and water
due to excessive use of water .
Shortage of water supply, particularly underground water due
to random wells drilling and irrational water use.
Holding fragmentation impeded agricultural
mechanization, due to heritage system and absence of joint
stock investment systems.
Marketing, export and processing activities do not go in line
with the agricultural production increase
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36. ChallengesFacingAgriculture
Limitation of natural and agricultural resources and the
impacts of environmental and climatic conditions.
High population growth and increased agricultural labor force.
Holding fragmentation.
Lack of financial resources and limited investments due to the
uncertainty of the agricultural investment.
Distribution of responsibility of agriculture managment
amongst different ministries
International economic changes (trade liberalization, trade
agreements, and tariff concessions).
Agricultural subsidies of rich countries and strong
competition.
Macro policies problems such as fiscal and financial
policies, interest and exchange rates, pricing, and subsidies.
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37. Lessons learned
• Seeking to achieve a goal at national level entails a strong political
well, which is the case of achieving self-sufficiency in wheat.
• Sharing the interest with all stakeholders and beneficiaries and make
them part of the process, which is the case in the preparation of
Annual Agricultural Production Plan.
• All requirements, including cash, should be made available at due
time and at reasonable price, which is the case when the
Government gives the responsibility to Agricultural Cooperative
Bank to provide farmers with cash and in-kind loans at low interest
rate.
• Insure that the implementation of the plan goes well, where a
strong technical team should be recruited to monitor and follow up
the implementation of the plan. Moreover, the team should be
ready to intervene at due time, this is the case when all technical
teams at the MAAR are ready to intervene when needed.
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38. • It is essential to assure farmers that the activity that you
are encouraging them to perform is profitable; the case
when the Government announces the price of wheat
prior of the planting season;
• In long term plans, adequate budget to fund research
and extension, protection plant should be secured; the
case when the Government allocates adequate money in
the current and investment budget to fund the Ministry
of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform programs.
• A clear vision and goals with executive matrix should be
announced, this is the case when the Government
adopted National Program for Food Security.
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