The Iraqi Agriculture Ministry has announced plans to save 3.6 billion cubic meters of water by deploying 35,000 irrigation sprinklers during the next planting season, according to AKnews. Ministry spokesman Karim al-Tamimi said the sprinklers were distributed among all provinces in the country. Iraq has suffered from drought due to a lack of rainfall as […]
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Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture buys 9 Helicopters
Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture has completed a $30 million deal to purchasing nine helicopters from a French company, according to AKnews. Kareem Tamimi, a spokesman for the ministry, said the deal was brokered initially two years ago, but did not mention the name of the company. The French company will deliver one helicopter every three […]
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Rasun Increases Chicken Production in Iraq
Rasun, part of the Vano Group, one of Iraq’s premier agriculture companies and the Ross GP distributor for Iraq, has announced an agreement to extend its Grandparent (GP) production base in order to meet the growing demand for Ross 308 Parent Stock (PS) and broilers in the country. Rasun has quickly become one of the […]
Iraq Increases Local Purchases of Rice
Iraq’s trade ministry bought 35 percent more rice from local producers in the last season, compared with the previous one, reports Bloomberg. Hassan Ibrahim, director general of Iraq’s Grain Board, told the agency that the ministry purchased 112,000 metric tons of rice from local producers at a price of 750,000 dinars ($643.78) a ton in […]
New Markets for Jordanian Produce in Iraq
A Jordanian delegation will visit Iraq next week to discuss the possibility of opening new markets for Jordanian fruits and vegetables in Iraq, according to a Jordanian Ministry of Agriculture statement. The Jordan Times reports that members of the delegation, which will be headed by the ministry’s secretary general, Radi Tarawneh, will meet with Iraqi […]
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Iraq to Increase Wheat Output by 74%
Iraq plans to increase domestic wheat production by about 74 percent to 3 million metric tons by 2015, according to Saleh Hussein Jabur [Jabr], director general of state- owned Mesopotamia Seed Company. Bloomberg reports that the government intends to triple the annual quantity of wheat seed that it buys from local farmers to 180,000 tons […]
Tags: food security, grain, Mesopotamia Seed Company, Mesopotamia State Company for Seed Production (MSCSP), Wheat
$2bn Japanese Fertiliser Plant for Basra
Reuters reports that a Japanese consortium is planning to build and operate a $2 billion fertilizer plant in Basra. Citing an article from Japanese business daily The Nikkei, they say the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will provide up to 150 million yen ($2 million) to Mitsui, Toyo Engineering Corp and Tokyo-based consulting firm Unico […]
Tags: Basra News, cement, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japanese International Cooperation Agency, Japanese International Cooperation Authority, JICA, Mitsui, Toyo Engineering, Unico
Iraq’s Rice Harvest Drops to About 100,000 tons
Azzaman reports that Iraqi rice yields have dropped to 108,000 tons from an average 200,000 tons it used to produce annually, increasing the country’s reliance on imports. Iraq is estimated to have imported more than 1.5 million tons of rice last year. The country’s Grain Board said the year’s rice produce has already been shipped […]
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KBR to Revamp the North Fertilizer Plant in Baiji
KBR has announced that it has been awarded a contract by First Global Company to revamp the North Fertilizer Plant in Baiji [Beiji, Bayji], Iraq. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide a license for its proprietary Ammonia Process and related engineering services to increase the plant capacity to 120 percent of the […]
Need for Food Storage in Sulaimaniya
Food stocks in the governorate of Sulaimaniya are now less than two weeks according to Sirwan Mohammed, the head of Sulaimaniya Chamber of Commerce. He told AKnews that since last year his office has been demanding the government allocate land plots to the Chamber so that it can construct new storage units. He added that […]
Tags: food security, Sulaimaniya
$21m Silo Under Construction in Erbil
A new silo with a storage capacity of 60,000 tons of wheat is under construction in Erbil province, according to AKnews. An advisor to the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Ministry of Trade and Industry, Faris Majid, told the news agency that the new project, worth $21 million, occupies a 70-acres site on the Erbil-to-Gwer road in […]
12 Dams to Save 20bn Cubic Meters of Water
Authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan are planning to build 12 dams in the semi-autonomous region in an attempt to save about 20 billion cubic meters of water per year, according to a report from AKnews. Currently, there are three main dams in the Kurdistan Region, two in Sulaimaniya province, and one in Duhok province, but these […]
Tags: Dams, Kurdistan News