IRAQ | Agriculture Sector

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Iraqi Wheat Production Comes to 1.8 Million Tons, Minister Says
Jul 25, 2011

Iraq’s wheat production amounts to 1.8 million metric tons this year and the country is due to become an exporter of the grain by 2015, Deputy Agriculture Minister Ghazi al-Abudi said.

Output is on course to reach 2.25 million to 2.5 million tons at the end of the season this year, the minister said today at a press conference in Baghdad. “Production is due to reach 3 million tons next year and Iraq is expected to become a wheat exporter by 2015 in line with government plans,” he said.

Iraq produced 1.875 million tons last year, Amer Abdul Aziz, spokesman for the Grain Board of Iraq, said July 19. The harvest so far this season covers about 40 percent of total national demand of about 4.5 million tons, he said.

The country will probably import another 1 million tons of wheat before the end of the year after buying 1.5 million tons so far in 2011, Hasan Ibrahim, the board’s general director, said June 7. Iraq tendered last week for 100,000 tons of wheat from all origins, with a bidding deadline of July 30.

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Agricultural Oases to Tackle Desertification
25 July 2011

The agriculture ministry has started work on a project to create green oases in various parts of the country as a way to combat a increasing desertification due to water shortages, according to a report from AKnews.
The oases will be planted with palm trees and cultivated for agricultural purpose with irritation from wells. The total cost of the projects will be 5 billion Iraqi dinars ($4 million).
“The Ministry has started implementing 7 projects to create large agricultural oases each with an area of 200 to 800 dunums (50-200 hectares) of land” said director of desertification control in the ministry, Mohammed Ghazi al-Akhras.
Five of the oases will be located in the desert areas of Anbar, Iraq’s largest province. Nineveh and Basra provinces will have one oasis each.
Large parts of Iraq that were once productive farmland have already turned into arid desert. The ministry says that between 40 and 50 per cent of what was agricultural land in the 1970s is now a barren wasteland.
The ministry of agriculture has so far completed 28 oases all over Iraq. It has announced plans to plant some 20 million trees as a way to address the issue.
Iraqi analysts claim that desertification has increased sharply in recent years as neighboring countries Turkey, Syria and Iran take more and more water. The Iraqi government has been highly critical of these actions which mean that during the summer months many rivers run dry shortly after they pass into Iraq.
The collapse in the water levels of the rivers has been swift. In 2000, the flow speed of the Euphrates was 950 cubic meters per second, but by this year it had dropped to 230 cubic meters per second.
Desertification also affects the cities. Sandstorms have become more frequent in recent years, sometimes bringing urban centers to stand-still and grounding planes.

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129 KM Irrigation Channel for Basra


Iraq’s Ministry of Water Resources has announced the building of a 129KM irrigation channel from the Shatt al-Arab waterway.
The channel will be lined with concrete, and will carry water at a rate of 30 cubic meters per second.
The project, which will provide water for agricultural land in the Basra governorate, is expected to cost 141 billion Iraqi dinars [$120m].

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Agriculture regain 546 of 629 species out of Iraqi dates
August 7 2011

Baghdad, Mustafa Majeed
Succeeded and the Ministry of Agriculture to restore 546 of out 629 species of Iraqi dates, which became extinct dozens of them during the past three decades. The director of the General Authority for Nakheel in the ministry full Mukhlif Zaia special permit for "morning", said the body has succeeded over the past seven years, the restoration of 546 species of out of 629 species of Iraqi dates famous in the world, including some species that became extinct already succeeded after the Commission's efforts and described as "painstaking" the restoration of seedlings and only one of them, namely "to Qatona" and "Melh" and "Hkurawi" and "Eye of the bathroom" and "the State", which is deposited in the bank for breeding.

He noted that the Commission is seeking through the implementation of the "mothers of palm" in place since years for the propagation of seedlings producing tissue and cultivated in the provinces respectively, because of its characteristics and qualities desired level of production and export conscious of the importance of palm trees and dates, which enforced the country since ancient times, and in return Iraq the lead again ranked first in the world in numbers and palm amounts Tamorh produced during the next term.

He Zaia said the authority has adopted since its establishment in 2004, a package of projects aimed for the advancement of palm trees in the country, by 26 stations in 13 provinces, which expires in 2012 and the duration of maintenance extends to the year 2021, in addition to the project to prepare the palm groves of old and extends up to ten years, and another heuristic for the introduction of modern technology for the cultivation of palm trees and the construction of presses for dates in five provinces, as well as driver Qalat palm, ages five to 25 years of orchards mothers, anywhere desired by the farmer.

The Director of the General Authority of the palm that the ministry is working through the bodies of the extension, palm trees, agricultural research, extensively to provide guidance and studies specialized research and the adoption of successful experiences of countries prior to the country area of the development of palm groves and production dates of trade desired world, similar to my experience the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, and then transfer them to the owners of orchards palm in the country, especially the province of Basra, which decreased the preparation of palm trees for less than three million after it was nearly ten million early eighties.

It is said that Iraq, which was until the end of the sixties of the last century, issued nearly 75 percent of the dates of the world and occupies the first place the number of palm number reached 33 million, declined over the past four decades to ninth place among exporters of dates in the world, which attributed agricultural experts to the lack of water quotas, disease and wars that devastated millions of trees, over the period from 1980 to now.

The ministry had prepared the work programs of intensive rehabilitation sector palm in the country, based cultivation of varieties that goes on for production to start from September and up to November in order to benefit from high prices for Tamortazjh marketed worldwide during the said period, and adopt a prolong period of marketing the adoption of cold storage and the types of business desired global special "Almjul" which is sold per kilogram than in European countries, twenty dollars, in addition to educational projects for the unemployed peasants in the provinces to promote the cultivation of palm trees for the current year work contracts-running two-to then be given a choice the farmer for the loan required for the construction of the garden of his own from a lending fund development of palm $ 100 million in the initiative, or even the acquisition of the same sites that have been set up educational projects in question.

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After a successful agricultural policy to support local production
August 14 2011


BAGHDAD - Hussein al-Tamimi Tgb
Found agricultural experts that the reactivation of agricultural production requires the combined efforts of several entities working to find formulas joint collaboration to create the field of production is not possible depletion, and provides services to countless of the Iraqi economy, stressing the start is possible, available and developed down to the appropriate environment for launch towards the agricultural sector advanced support means advanced agricultural , that achieve self-sufficiency in all types of crops, and enrich the country from dependence on neighboring countries and others, and one of the leading factors of success achieved by the agricultural sector, the adoption of agricultural policy sober adopted by the Ministry of Agriculture in the protection of the domestic product by preventing the import in the period of peak production at home .

Alzerkane Captain Imad engineers agricultural administrators told the (morning): The process of advancement of the agricultural sector can not do without the integration of staff of the Trinity known as the land, water and scientific expertise, and then employ agricultural inputs available to activate the output.

He said the agricultural sector was still Bjanabih physical and human capital sector is important to the length of the previous ages and left the ground under the weight of abuse, pointing out that the most important factors of neglect of this sector, which constitutes the backbone of life in the Iraqi society lies in the lack of Kawar scientific and technical linked administrative efficiently

He noted that at this stage that contains the mechanisms, studies, and great efforts to promote agricultural production, has to be coordination between all institutions concerned with affairs of agricultural out with positive results, and here we believe that the role of scientific expertise required, and emphasizes the mobilization and the creation of human elements to prove the existence and achieve our ambition of making competencies are able to manage this process successfully.

It also must work according to the context of a scientific art, and in line with the requirements necessary for the sector of Iraq and to communicate with international experience, and farming methods that have adopted advanced technology, and transfer to the field through direct meetings and holding seminars and issuing scientific and other means to communicate to others that raise the awareness of large segment is responsible for managing the production process have a direct and significant impact on the economy of the country.

And afflicted that the union joint program with the institutions concerned in the Ministry of Agriculture and Colleges of Agriculture and the Ministry of Science and Technology and other ministries relevant for the purpose of training and preparation of agricultural engineers with the contribution of the union actively to implement the training and development programs agreed upon with the parties, as work continues on finding mechanisms to ensure Activity scientific expertise of the agricultural engineer in the field for his role in the diagnosis of kinks and contain most of the problems.

The Head of the Federation of Associations of agricultural Hassan Nassif al-Tamimi told the (morning): The agricultural sector have the resources for the advancement to levels covering the needs of the country, if there was a set of requirements for growth, where the need for irrigation water and pesticides to combat pests, as well as fertilizer chemical, as well as the need for effective law ensures protection products, agricultural sector, which is an economic resource firm, pointing out that contain these determinants can be through coordination between the relevant authorities to the field of agriculture, which provides each of which proposals the development of production and overcome the obstacles after the field study carried out by specialists in this matter.

Mhbeira to prevent the import policy in the peak periods and it said successful and achieved its goals, also called al-Tamimi to regulate the distribution of chemical fertilizer for some crops and neglect of other crops and orchards.

He expressed regret razed large areas of orchards and away from the cultivation of vegetables, production declined to low levels, due to failure to regulate the distribution of fertilizer.

He added that a large number of farmers relied on the giant water pumps and medium irrigation of large areas and they need to fuel and electrical energy, and are suffering a shortage of these materials caused confusion in the work of this slide and the country was deprived of the mass production of different crops.

He pointed to the need for a new policy for dealing with agricultural production in terms of export surplus, and that there is a mechanism for sharing a joint with the neighboring countries working on the export of a particular crop when further import from the other side, thus making a new port of surplus crops, especially as the season saw the accumulation of yield of tomato in the offices of the wholesale to the lack of market demand, adding that the experience of agriculture within the greenhouses came the results are positive, and called for a strategic plan to revive the reality of agriculture across the country encouraging to find agricultural investments to serve the country and Neither abuse farmer, but a partnership with the investor who must comes from the techniques of modern machinery and factories and advanced farming methods promote the agricultural field, because the transfer of technology has become one of the necessities of agricultural advancement, which represents an important aspect in the national economy.

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Iraq growing its own says Agriculture Ministry
17/08/2011


The Agriculture Ministry says that 90% of the fresh vegetables on the Iraqi market today are locally produced, signaling the success of the government’s import policies.

Ministry spokesman Karim al-Tamimi told AKnews that the ministry has imposed strict controls on the import of vegetables with an outright ban on some strategic crops, in a bid to support Iraqi agriculture.

In 2007, the government launched a scheme to improve the agricultural situation in the country, setting a 10-year time limit for Iraq to become self-sufficient in staple foodstuffs.

Included in the initiative is the provision of basic supplies to local producers, such as seeds, pesticides and fertilizers, as well as helping with land reclamation issues and ensuring market prices for their harvests.

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Mosul’s Mushroom Farm a First for Iraq
September 2 2011



Although they grow wild, mushrooms remain a relatively exotic food in Iraq, according to this report from Niqash. Now one ambitious Mosul man plans to change all that: by starting Iraq’s first mushroom farm. And there are already shoppers queuing for his fungi.

The casual observer would be hard pressed to find signs of an ambitious agricultural project with great commercial and culinary potential, here on this quiet street in the working class neighbourhood of Ras al-Jadda in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Yet this is where one of Iraq’s most innovative agricultural projects is underway: Iraq’s first mushroom growing project.

Two years ago Majeed Hamid Sallal got a license from the investment commission of the state of Ninawa, which encourages new investments in the northern state, to start his mushroom farm.

“But growing mushrooms requires special conditions,” he said. “And for these reasons they thought that my project would fail. Nobody encouraged me to carry on.”

However Sallal has proved the mushroom naysayers wrong. Proudly holding up one of his mushrooms, Sallal said he has already come up to international standards in white mushroom growing, with his project’s potential to produce an average of between 20 and 30 kilograms of mushrooms per square meter of mushroom compost. And he is very confident that he can continue to make his mushrooms a success. His achievement in the face of such difficult circumstances, he feels, deserves praise.

After being unable to get much advice or help from academics at the University of Mosul, Sallal went to the city of Alepo in Syria where he paid to take courses in agricultural science and where he was also introduced to similar mushroom projects. For instance, mushrooms have been grown successfully in Idlib, Syria, which neighbours the state of Alepo.

When NIQASH came to visit the mushroom project in Mosul, Sallal lectured this correspondent on the intricacies of growing mushrooms as though he were a university professor. “Growing mushrooms requires pasteurization and sterilization to get rid of harmful bacteria,” he explained. “This was done here,” he said, indicating a small chamber containing steam machines, which are needed for the pasteurization of mushroom compost. “These machines were made in Mosul,” Sallal says, “because importing them would have been too expensive. And they work perfectly.”

To successfully plant, grow and harvest the mushrooms, conditions need to be optimal – and this includes heat and high humidity, with just the right levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Various machines create these conditions in a room with specially built walls that will ensure best conditions for baby mushrooms can be maintained. Today, in the terraces that have been built throughout the space, one can already see the white sprouts coming up.

“The most difficult part is preparing the seeds,” Sallal explained. “And that happened in a laboratory. But there’s no room for mistakes at any stage because all the stages complement one another.”

What is particularly interesting about Sallal’s mushroom project is that it is almost completely local: the only stage at which foreigners intervene is in the preparation of the seeds.

Nonetheless, Sallal said the project had still been an expensive one. He was reluctant to talk about the real costs of the project. Although he had used his own money to set the mushroom project up, he had also been able to get a loan from the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. “It is too costly,” Sallal complained, “but at the same time, it is also profitable.”

The state of Ninawa is well known for its agriculture and is Iraq’s leading wheat and barley producing region, responsible, on average, for around 20 per cent of the country’s total wheat production and around 30 per cent of its total barley crop. But mushroom farming is something new to Ninawa and it may well be an interesting, potentially lucrative, alternative for grain farmers in the area heavily hit by successive droughts and unsteady government support over the past few years.

A professor at the College of Agriculture and Forestry at Mosul University, Ali Kareem, recalled that there had been an attempt to grow mushrooms in Ninawa before, back in the 1970s. “But if production has already started, then that is sufficient proof of this [Sallal's] project’s success already,” he noted.
Despite Sallal’s fungal success so far though, local authorities still seem to have some reservations about the mushroom project.

The head of the local council’s committee on agriculture and water, Nawaf Turki al-Faisal, told NIQASH that he was concerned about whether the end product would be fit for human consumption and that he would need to check with health and environmental authorities. Then again, this procedure was supposed to have been undertaken before Ninawa’s investment commission licensed the project.

Meanwhile back at the mushroom project, Sallal talked about how watching mushrooms grow made him happy. Although mushrooms are not that common in Iraq, the people of Mosul like to eat well and Sallal’s aim is to encourage more of them to try his mushrooms. Ninawa has a population of around three million and Sallal would like mushrooms to become a steady culinary favourite here.

Sallal gifts some of his mushrooms to his friends because at the moment, the project is still in the experimental stage and not that many are being produced but every week small amounts of his white mushrooms also arrive at the Barakat al-Rahman supermarket in the Jadida neighbourhood of Mosul. One kilogram sells for IQD6,000 (around US$5), the store owner reported.
But, as the shop owner quickly pointed out, “some customers now wait for [Sallal’s] mushrooms to arrive because they consider them better quality than the imported mushrooms.”

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The use of modern technologies in the conservation of dates in Iraq
September 5 2011


Researchers presented a single Ministry of Science and Technology study included the search of a substitute for the use of methyl bromide gas is used in keeping dates packaged for commercial purposes, using other alternatives and environmentally acceptable Atotr to human health or the environment in general ...

And between Dr.Iyad Ahmed term that gas methyl bromide gases, carcinogens and polluting the environment and humans and affect the ozone layer being one of the gases depleting them.

The study pointed to the possibility of using nuclear technology in the killing of insects dates stored or the use of elements of integrated control of insects mites dates. And made ​​the summary study results, including the possibility of applying such techniques in Iraq through the provision of plant for the production of sterile insects and plant for the production of a malicious eggs and intruder larvae as well as sending cadres of scientific training on the accelerator electron beams, which is used in the field of nuclear technology to kill insects dates.

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Low numbers of palms and Iraq is seeking to raise them
September 11 2011


Iraqi officials paid towards the cultivation of palm-back programs in the country of Iraq which it is famous throughout the Middle East, but he suffered a significant decline in their numbers over the past decades.

These trees that have been celebrated since ancient Babylonian symbol of power and luxury, but more than three decades of sanctions, wars and mismanagement have led to a decrease in numbers significantly.

Kamel says Dulaimi, head of palm trees in the Ministry of Agriculture «In ancient times, people rely heavily on this tree that operators charge not only of food but also wood, tools, furniture, baskets».

He said «It is a symbol of Iraq for several reasons, therefore, the Iraqi government has allocated $ 150 million in a project to double the numbers three times to the tree by its fruit is popular with people, especially in the holy month of Ramadan in 2012«.

This program, which started already in 2005 and participated in the ministry grow 30 farms palm and the government is trying to attract private sector investment for the cultivation of additional sites in the Western Desert of Iraq, where they were planted thousands of seedlings, there also comes the effort to try to restore the country's infrastructure, He said al-Dulaimi said «Generally speaking, the goal of the government program is to increase the number of palm trees to 40 million trees in 10 years, the number was about 32 million trees in the middle of the twentieth century, this figure dropped to 12 million trees in 2000».

The government authorities have collected 520 species of these trees and is looking to increase this number, which represents three-quarters of the types of palm trees in Iraq, and Iraq had before the eighties 600 species of palm trees, but the drop in numbers was the result of wars and conflicts, many of Iraq that occurred in the eighties and beyond, and before that dates were the second largest intake of Iraqi exports after oil.

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Iraq growing its own says Agriculture Ministry
17/08/2011


The Agriculture Ministry says that 90% of the fresh vegetables on the Iraqi market today are locally produced, signaling the success of the government’s import policies.

Ministry spokesman Karim al-Tamimi told AKnews that the ministry has imposed strict controls on the import of vegetables with an outright ban on some strategic crops, in a bid to support Iraqi agriculture.

In 2007, the government launched a scheme to improve the agricultural situation in the country, setting a 10-year time limit for Iraq to become self-sufficient in staple foodstuffs.

Included in the initiative is the provision of basic supplies to local producers, such as seeds, pesticides and fertilizers, as well as helping with land reclamation issues and ensuring market prices for their harvests.

khara ab 3ardh il chidhib!

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Over million donums to be planted with wheat, barley in Wassit Province
9/25/2011


Southern Iraq’s Wassit Province was reported on Sunday to have completed its preparations to plant over one million donums of wheat and barley crops in different agricultural areas of the Province.

“Our Province has completed its preparations to implement the agricultural plan for the next winter season, to cover the planting of one million and 26,000 donums of wheat and barley crops in different parts of the Province,” Wassit’s Agriculture Director, Faiz Jawad told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Jawad said that “the Province’s Agricultural Committee depended on the same plan of last year for the planted area that covered the planting of 751,000 donums with wheat and 275,000 donums with barley, after supplying the farmers with seeds.”

Noteworthy is that Wassit Province occupied the first position among all other Iraqi Provinces in the process of marketing wheat and barley crops, that reached 403,000 tons of wheat and 60,000 tons of barley.

Kut, the center of Wassit Province, is 180 km to the southeast of Baghdad.

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The Iraqi dunam is 2,500 square metres

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Ministry of Agriculture confirms that the number of palm trees in Iraq is 21 million, not ten million


October 5 2011

Baghdad: Ahmed Naseer
The presence of the Minister of Agriculture, Izz al-Din Abdullah, the state set up a Ministry of Agriculture, represented by the General Authority for palm festive palm trees and dates eighth on Sunday, 25 / September the current and the Club, the top in Baghdad. And began celebratory organized under the slogan (Ngelna code Hmokh new Iraq).

The presence of a number of the members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives and Minister of Agriculture and former agents, consultants and general managers and directors of agriculture, experts, researchers and managers of plants palm in the provinces and the media.

And the minister gave a speech on the occasion, he said, where we attended today to celebrate Bamtna Palm, this blessed tree generous that deserve our All honor and praise and said we celebrate this day every year, because Iraq is a country of 30 million trees and explained that the ministry is working on the implementation of agricultural projects for the palm groves, as well as rehabilitation of old fields and destructive, and pointed to the existence of an attack from some quarters in the region through broadcast rumors say that the Iraqi dates have been exposed to radiation, and at the same time they work on the purchase of Iraqi dates, and then re-packaging and selling them on the world market again and said the authorities are trying to show that this issue is not political, and in the fact that this subject is purely political, and called on everyone whether they are MPs in the parliament or government officials to stop this vicious attack on our country and said the minister in case we receive the official task we addressed the processing of the owners of palm groves Pfsaúl palm of good quality, and work to rehabilitate the palm groves, in addition to the processing of every Iraqi family Bveselh palm for the propagation of palm trees in the country, and called on Iraqis to plant palm trees everywhere in the land of Iraq, in order to return Iraq to its previous status in the occupation of sites lead in the number of palm trees and the production and export of dates and said there were several statistics issued by some organizations suggest that the number of palm in Iraq has dropped to (8) million, or (10) million trees.

But the latest statistic reached by the General Authority for Nakheel says the number of palm trees in Iraq right now is (21) million trees stressed the keenness and the ministry to support the owners of the palm groves all what they need from the requirements , calling for the use of modern technologies and scientific methods developed in the cultivation of palm in order to increase and improve the production of dates in Iraq and then gave Mr. Kamel Mukhlif Zaia / Director General of the palm word which he discussed the projects palm implementing, and supporting the ministry to develop the sector and palm date production is also touched on the achievements in the field of palms recently has included a ceremonial dumping of poems, events sang love Iraq, as well as embodied the historical depth of Iraq in the field of agriculture and then opened the minister exhibition dates, which was held in the festivities, which included the finest and the best types of Iraqi dates and models of manufacturing special dates, and the ways science used in the cultivation of palm, including the way the textile, which is one of the latest tools developed and distributed by the end, prizes and certificates to the gentlemen farmers, officials and guests.

Were also distributed some of the items date palm cultivation to farmers outstanding. Post hallmark of Agriculture Department of Krblaneucharkt Agriculture Department of Karbala stand conveniently included many varieties of dates and products extracted from the dates and saw lots of interest by officials in the Ministry of Agriculture and members of the House of Representatives, specialists and citizens.

Eng. Razak Ali al-Tai Director of the cultivation of Karbala that the Directorate participated in this exhibition booth included dozens of varieties of dates the rare plant in the province of Karbala in addition to the many industries that enter dates and which are produced in Karbala during the labs and factories, which were created through loans from the agricultural initiative.

The was wing Agriculture Department of Karbala, we have been approved by the Minister of Agriculture Izz al-Din Abdullah countries who visited the exhibition and see the most important exhibits of the various Alsnov rare dates, which is characterized by Karbala planted addition to the presentation date products Caldbs, vinegar, dates, canned improvised different and intended for export. also briefed on some of the photographers Filksat and that explained the evolution in the sector dates witnessed by the province, especially during the past years through the control of air led to a lower incidence of plague Dubas and consequently increase productivity and improve the quality of dates in the province.

DAI also visited the wing members of the Agricultural Committee in the House of Representatives, led by Mr. Fouad Alldorki addition to the deputy ministers, advisers and specialists palm sector and a large gathering of citizens.

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Agriculture in Wasit declare surplus achieved in the production of some crops through greenhouse technology
October 10 2011


Agriculture Department announced that Wasit from a surplus in the production of vegetables through the use of greenhouse technology in agriculture.

He said agricultural engineer winner Jawad Gharrawi Director Agriculture and Wasit, "The use of greenhouse technology in the cultivation of agricultural crops has great abundance in the production of vegetables, especially cucumbers and tomatoes."

"The number of plastic houses distributed to farmers in the province amounted to two thousand home, subsidized by the Ministry of Agriculture and some international organizations, and the production of these houses was 5-6 tons of crop tomato in one house offset between 7-8 tons in one house of the crop option, which means more product for which the rate of domestic consumption. "

Gharrawi said that "it paid to the Department of Agriculture invite investors to set up cold storage to accommodate the surplus. Has been to build its first store cooler on an area of ​​land and 250 thousand square meters in the city of Kut."

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Good effect: The percentage of recovery reached 60% of the marshes and work is still going on
October 11 2011


BAGHDAD - babysit - Minister of State for the marshes of good force, said on Tuesday that destroyed the marshes during days of the previous regime is experiencing a major campaign to bring it back to life after the fall of that regime.

"The force" said in a statement singled out by the news agency and public opinion, "The marshes dried up and ended the day life of the inhabitants was left in no man and no animal or plant being exposed to the systematic sabotage and orderly."

He was pointing out that open water of the marshes have been recovered by 60 percent, and work continued to revive it.

Stressing that his ministry had moved since 2006 to serve the first two-way return the marsh water to it and the second delivery of services to the people that dwell therein ... p / g

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Great news

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Iraq to spend $500 Million USD to stimulate agriculture



Baghdad, Oct. 12 (AKnews) - The Iraqi Agriculture Ministry wants to spend more than 600 billion IQD ($504.8 million USD) to build modern agricultural villages in order to stimulate the Iraqi agricultural industry.

20 billion IQD ($16.8 million USD) will be spent on average for each village in the provinces of Najaf, Anbar, Nineveh and Babil, Salahaddin and Baghdad, two villages in Diwaniyah and Karbala have already been completed, according to the ministry.

"The project will be completed by 2015," promised Deputy Agriculture Minister Mahdi Damad al-Qaisi.

The Iraqi agriculture industry is suffering because of a two-year drought and farmers who are unable to compete with cheap imported products and therefore reluctant to farm.

The government tried to address the issue in January 2010 with a law for modern agricultural villages which mandated the Agriculture Ministry to determine suitable sites for the villages and to construct housing units.

These villages are supposed to be equipped with developed mechanisms to improve the agricultural situation, such as irrigation systems. Also, a loan system shall be available for farmers.

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First animal feed plant in mid Iraq
October 18 2011



KARBALA / Aswat al-Iraq: The first animal feed plant was opened today by a local investor at a cost of 6 million dollars, Karbala's Investment Director announced.

Ta'if Abdul Hussein told Aswat al-Iraq that the investor is from Diala province.

The plant was supplied by modern Turkish machinery, with a production capacity of 200 tons per day.

It will provide animal, fish and poultry with required feed.

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Expert Confirms: Iraqi agriculture started to recover
December 25 2011


Expert Confirms: Iraqi agriculture started to recover ..It is expected the arrival of Iraq to self-sufficiency of the strategic crops

Baghdad (news) .. Samir al-Obeidi Alkhbayralzerai expected in the coming years the arrival of Iraq to self-sufficiency in wheat material, the fact that most of the farms began to produce tons of wheat in dunum, saying: that the Iraqi agriculture has started to recover and Mgayeran former.

Obeidi said in a statement to the Agency (news) said on Sunday: There is a high potential of the events of mutations agricultural quality and quantity, especially crops strategy Kalhanth, and will arrive in Iraq in the coming years to self-sufficiency of the material of wheat as a result, most seed producers have achieved high rates of wheat through the production tons Dunum one on the space (1000) and acres (6000) acres.

He pointed to: that the agricultural sector in Iraq began to recover itself through agricultural initiative and the plan developed by the Ministry of Agriculture, calling to: reliance on scientific research through the transfer of experiences of researchers to the agricultural fields through the guidance of the farmer in the field.

Obeidi said: There are Iraqi scientists and researchers that are finding solutions in distinct varieties for the production of wheat and conducted their research on how to increase production and gave positive indications of increasing production per Dunum.

The agricultural expert called to: the need to use modern irrigation systems (drip) for the purpose of watering the crops and the strategy to keep on giving proper irrigation Bmuadh by plant age as a pass until the ripening stages, as well as to reduce the waste of irrigation water from the random

He had announced the Ministry of Agriculture earlier conducted using the techniques of modern irrigation projects for the cultivation of wheat, indicating that it will be distributed at irrigation systems (50%) of the farmers in order to ensure the production of (3) million tons per season of this crop

The art dealer of the Ministry of Agriculture Mehdi Qaisi in an earlier statement (of the Agency news): The Ministry of Agriculture began a project to use modern techniques to irrigate cultivation of wheat, which is a national project, because he believes the needs of the citizen of a substance wheat that fall in the diets of its daily food, as well as to being considered one of the strategic crops that are affected by the global economic fluctuations.

The Qaisi: The project was introduced, and soon will be distributed the first set of these systems to farmers at subsidized prices to (50%) to cover agriculture (3) million acres of wheat, which believes in the production of (3) million tons per season, indicating stability of food at least as important as the national Ostaqraralomn within the country.

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^good news

The government is spending large amounts of money for agriculture, there are excavators working on reviving farmland all of over Iraq and it's apparent if you go there, the only problem is some farmers have lost interest in farming because it doesn't provide much income. My family has a big palm tree farm, we just let the dates grow and dry up because It's not worth selling them, and all the palm trees are still young and producing.