HAMBURG, May 15 (Reuters) - Dry weather is likely to cut Syria's 2014 wheat crop by 18 percent on the year to about 1.97 million tonnes, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a report on Thursday.
Syria's 2014 barley crop is likely to fall 65 percent to 0.34 million tonnes, the FAO said.
Syria's poor grains crops are likely to raise the country's import needs in the upcoming July 2014 to June 2015 grains marketing year, the FAO said. (Reporting by Michael Hogan and Valerie Parent; editing by Jason Neely)
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