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Al-Hasakah, Syria, July 7, 2018. Women clean cattle wool in a field as farmers and their families in al-Hasakah, Northeastern Syria spend most of their time cultivating fields and reaping crops while their children spend their time helping their mothers and swimming too cool down. Syrian farmers suffer in poor economic conditions due to the siege imposed by the Syrian government forces on several areas in Syria. The farmers suffer from difficulties in exporting local crops abroad or to other Syrian regions amidst high prices of fuel and farming equipment.