![]() ![]() While oil constitutes Syria's greatest export commodity, agriculture is still of major importance in the economy, contributing around 40% of GDP and employing nearly 30% of the workforce, particularly women. In northern Syria, where rainfall varies between 150-600mm per year, fallow is replaced with continuous cropping of cereals, and cereals rotated with forage (vetch) or food legumes (chickpea, lentil and faba bean). In the drier cultivated areas, cereal and fallow rotations are traditionally combined with sheep rearing, although with increased land pressure, fallow is becoming less common. Crop production is, for the most part, restricted by rainfall to the semi-arid west of the country, including the wetter coastal plain and mountains, and to the northern region along the Turkish border. Nearly 70% of the country is either arid grassland or desert, the tough grasses offering limited grazing for sheep and cattle. From a short stretch of the eastern Mediterranean coast just north of Israel and Lebanon, Syria spreads east and south-east towards Iraq and Jordan. ![]()
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