Prices of corn in Syria’s Raqqa remain unstable despite price determination by Kurdish-led NES
Farmers unloading maize from the trailer to transport to the grain drying center in Raqqa - November 2020 (Hawar News Agency)
Raqqa – Hussam al-Omar
Muhammad al-Ali drove his truck loaded with his harvested corn crop to the maize drying center in the northern outskirts of the city of Raqqa to supply what his land produced after a season of high costs.
Al-Ali, a 50-year-old farmer from Hazima village in the northern countryside of Raqqa, paid the costs of seeds, fertilizers, and living wages to workers. Luckily, he got a “good” crop this year.