Extremely high prices for seeds, and the wages of plowing and agriculture in Syrian Kurdistan

ARK News... Local sources revealed that the problems and difficulties facing the Kurdish farmers during the start of the cultivating season are increasing, and all kinds of seeds are constantly increasing.

Local sources in Kurdistan Syria told ARK News: In conjunction with the start of the planting season, farmers began to face difficulties, and traders are taking advantage of the lack of monitoring by the PYD administration to raise the seeds' prices for cultivation.

The local sources added that one ton of wheat seed, its price at present is more than (2) million Syrian pounds, and it is not available, and barley is not available. The price of one ton is expected to be more than (1,400,000) one million and four hundred thousand Syrian pounds.

Here are the prices of some materials required for cultivation:

-A ton of wheat (2,100,000) Syrian pounds, which is not available.

-A ton of barley is more than (1,400,000) Syrian pounds, and it is not available.

-A ton of sifted coriander (950) dollars.

- Ton of unsifted coriander (750) US dollars.

-A ton of chickpeas (800-900) US dollars.

-A ton of “winter” phosphate fertilizer (500) US dollars.

- A ton of urea fertilizer "Spring" (490) US dollars.

The local sources said, due to the high price of fuels, especially diesel, owners of heavy machinery for plowing agricultural lands are forced to raise the price of pressing per hectare from (48-120) thousand Syrian pounds.

-Plowing prices of agricultural land "per hectare"

- Plowing with discs for agricultural lands with rain (48000) thousand Syrian pounds.

- Plowing and farming in Al-Harro for rain-fed agricultural lands (48000) thousand Syrian pounds.

-Plowing with discs for agricultural lands, watering (120,000) thousand Syrian pounds.

-Plowing and farming in Harro for agricultural lands, watering (120,000) thousand Syrian pounds.

-Plowing in kilvator (65) thousand Syrian pounds.

-Plowing with plows is more than (120,000) Syrian pounds.

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