Farmers in the Al -Ghab Plain in the Syrian city of Hama began to shift from cotton cultivation to other crops, due to the lack and cost of hydrocarbons and irrigation water.
The cotton spaces in Syria reached 200 thousand hectares in the mid -1990s, but they declined to only 5 thousand last year, which resulted in the decline of the crop from one million and 100 thousand tons to 15 thousand tons during the same period.
Report: Ammar Tibi
