Syria’s Coastal Citrus Sector Reports 38 Percent Decline

Syria’s coastal citrus sector reports 38 percent decline

Syria’s coastal citrus sector reports 38 percent decline

Citrus production on Syria’s coast drops 38.2 percent in ten years - Enab Baladi

Enab Baladi – Shaaban Shamieh For years, citrus farmers on Syria’s coast have suffered from what they describe as a policy of “dropping their seasons”, a pattern of decisions by successive governments that they see as “unfair”, including export policies and broad approvals to import Lebanese bananas into local markets right at the peak of the citrus season, in addition to exploitation and fraud by traders in central wholesale markets known as “a…