Eighty percent of Homs’ poultry farms are out of business, according to a local official, highlighting the potential looming shortages of some food items in the country.

The Syrian authorities have rescheduled, for the second year in a row, debts owed by the country’s farmers and scrapped delay penalty fees.

The Syrian government has issued a new tender for the purchase of wheat, according to Reuters.

The Syrian government has recently concluded two transactions for the purchase of 150,000 tons of milling wheat, the state's cereals trading body said.

Syria is increasing the procurement price of wheat next season as it aims to raise output.

The government has increased by around 20 percent its procurement price for cotton.

Syria produced 1 million tons of flour in the first six months of this year, according to the General Company for Mills.

Syria’s 2012 citrus fruits crop is estimated at 1.1 million tons by the Ministry of Agriculture, in line with last year’s levels.

The Ministry of Agriculture plans to raise the price it pays to buy cotton from its farmers to take into account rising costs.

The Ministry of Agriculture is allocating SYP 60 billion to fund this year's cereals harvest.

Three million Syrians are in need of humanitarian support because of the losses and displacements caused by the uprising gripping the country, the FAO said.

Syria’s almond crop is estimated at 220,000 tons this year by the Ministry of Agriculture.

Syria’s sugar beet crop is forecast to decline by 31 percent this year compared to last.

Syria’s production of lint cotton reached 218,000 tons this season, according to the head of the Cotton Marketing Organisation, Nazir Lababidi.

The increasingly deteriorating security situation across Syria, in particular in the northern part of the country, around the cities of Aleppo, Idlib and Hama, has rendered almost impossible the distribution of barley, forcing the authorities to turn to imports.