As wheat harvest season in Syria approaches, the regime and the opposition are separately setting up new pricing plans, hoping to get farmers to sell to them amid fears of a worsening shortage of domestic and imported supplies. These supplies are critical to ensuring food security for the populations in their respective areas of control.
Russia sent a ship carrying 25,000 tons of soft wheat to help replenish the local stock needed for making bread in government-controlled areas. The shipment arrived April 3 in Latakia.
