The catastrophic weather conditions that hit the Syrian provinces exporting vegetables and fruits disrupted the arrival of products or goods to the capital Damascus, leading to a decrease in supply versus the huge and increasing demand, especially during winter times, as the quantities of vegetables arriving in Damascus decreased by half due to the bad weather in the country, especially the coastal area as it is home to protected agriculture, and the governorates of Homs and Hama. The agricultural lands in the Tartous governorate were also flooded by the overflowing of the Akkar plain rivers, in addition to difficulties in transportation due to the bad weather.

It cast its shadow on the prices of vegetables and fruits, as they rose significantly during the past two days to reach 13,000 Syrian pounds per kilo of tomatoes in the market, while the price of potatoes ranged between 9-11 thousand Syrian pounds, and eggplants ranged in price between 6,500 to 7,000 pounds, while the price of one kilo of zucchini reached 13 thousand Syrian pounds. 

In another context, the export of these products continues, as citrus fruits and tomatoes are exported to the Gulf countries, while pomegranates are only exported to Iraq at the present time, and between 25 and 30 trucks leave daily to these countries from the market.

Returning to the sea monster that hit Tartous, leaving great damage to agricultural lands in the Akkar plain adjacent to the north Kabir and Abu Al-Ward rivers, due to the flooding of the rivers resulting from the rain that the governorate is witnessing.

Initial estimates indicated that about 4,000 greenhouses and 3,000 dunums of wheat crops, 3,500 dunums of potatoes, 2,000 dunums of zucchini, 600 dunums of citrus fruits, and 700 dunums of green peas were damaged.