Key Highlights 

• Fertilizers price was the most significant average price increase recorded for May 2021 as it was ranged between 228 to 237 % from the Agriculture Bank. The other significant increase of 55 percent was for wheat seed and this is linked to the new selling price that was set by the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform (MAAR) for production season 2021. 
•  Five food items out of eight recorded an increase in May 2021, they are bread, eggs, cow milk, sheep meat and cow meat. 
• The shortage and the high cost of poultry, cattle and sheep fodder, maize, soybean, and wheat bran coupled with the fragile veterinary services, remain a challenge for livestock keepers. 
• Water scarcity has become a major challenge and concern for agriculture production in Syria for the 2021 summer season. The water scarcity has resulted due to the poor and erratic rainfall, coupled with the reduced water flow and discharge from the Euphrates River, is worsening the already difficult situation for farmers.