Syria and IMPORTED FROM IRAQ: WHEAT

Mohammad Suyanto

Abstract

Wheat also from Syria and Iraq. Wheat (Triticum spp.) Is a grain crop, similar to the rice that can be made various foods, like bread and pasta. Wheat is an important yangpaling food crop in the world. The plant is believed that the first time grows wild in the Middle East known as the Fertile Crescent region. Fertile Crescent region is in the Middle East region that combines the Levant (about Lebanon), Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. The area is the confluence of the Nile, the Euphrates and Tigris rivers include the 400 thousand - 500 thousand square kilometers stretching from the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea, around the northern Plains across the Syrian and the Arabian Peninsula and Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf. The area that connects the area now called Egypt, Israel, West Bank, Gaza lane, Lebanon, part of Jordan, Syria, Iraq, southeast Turkey and Southwest Iran. Fertile Crescent name given by archaeologists from the University of Chicago, James Henry Breasted around 1900.

Empowered first wheat some 11,000 years ago. Since 4000 BC wheat farming had spread to Asia, Europe and North Africa. New species of wheat was developed, as early farmers selected seeds from the best wheat crop for the seed to the annual harvest continually. The way it is a way to get the best quality wheat from generation to generation. Three thousand years ago agricultural empowerment with horse-drawn plows increased grain production. In the 18th century, the seeds are sown widely replaced with the seed planted, it continues to increase yield. We have wheat empowerment involves the use of fertilizers, threshing machine, reaper, tractors, planters and using better varieties.

Wheat grains can be crushed into flour, made sprouts and dried to make powdered milk, ground and shelled the cracked wheat, steamed, dried, ground and shelled into bulgur, or processed into pasta, semolina or sauce ingredients. These materials are unsure in food, such as breads, cereals, porridge, cake was sweet, biscuits, pancakes, cakes, sauces and beverage fermentation (Boza).

Wheat is the food mentioned in the hadith, such as Bukhari Hadith narrated as follows. Anas ra, that it is he went to the Prophet. carrying wheat bread and cheese that much. Anas said, "The Prophet. has merunggukan in adinah armor to the Jews, and he took the wheat from the Jewish family for him. "Qatada said, I heard Anas saying. "This evening the family of Muhammad s.a.w. not have any segantang wheat nor grain (food). Though he has nine wives (who became his dependents). "

source:journal.amikom.ac.id