Iraq Business News brings you the latest news on developments and opportunities in Iraq agriculture.
The Grain Board of Iraq (Ministry of Trade) has announced a tender for the supply of 100,000 tonnes of wheat. The deadline for bids is 10:00 am Baghdad time on 26th March. Please click here to download the tender details.
The Najaf province announced on Saturday that it will host its 4th agricultural exhibition on April 25, to encourage investment in the agricultural sector in the province. Faed Kadhim Noun, the head of the provincial council, told AKnews that local and international companies are invited to participate in the exhibition in order to improve the […]
Reuters reports that France's grain export lobby has invited an Iraqi delegation to visit the country as it tries to break into what has become one of the world's major wheat import markets. The move followed the signing last year of a letter of intent between France Export Cereales and Iraq's grain board on establishing […]
Iraq has decided to import 400,000 tons of American and Australian wheat, according to a statement by the Director-General of the General Company for Grain Trade on Saturday. “Trade Minister Kheirullah Hassan has approved a deal to purchase 400,000 tons of wheat, 300,000 tons of it from America and 100,000 tons from Australia,” Muthanna Abdul-Jabbar […]
The Iraqi Agriculture Minister has said that 470 billion Iraqi Dinars ($400 million) has been allocated to his ministry this year to develop the country’s agricultural sector, according to a report from AKnews. Izzeddine al-Dawla [Izzuldin al-Doula] said that the implementation of an irrigation project using the latest techniques and covering an area of more […]
The volume of waters from the Tigris River reaching Iraq has been receding to the extent that several water purification plants in the Province of Missan [Maysan] are running without water. Mohannad Kadhem, the head of water purification and distribution in the southern province, said the problem started with tributaries belonging to the river feeding […]
The parliamentary economic committee will oversee all commercial contracts signed by the Trade Ministry in order to eliminate corruption, a committee member announced today. Salman al-Moussawi told AKnews that the intervention of the commission is backed by the government in a bid to accelerate the work of the ministry and negate the possibility of fraudulent […]
By T. Keyzom Ngodup, co-founder and Executive Director at Ideas sYnergy, an Iraq based private sector development consulting company. I was pleasantly ‘perplexed’ to learn that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, approved (on February 7, 2011) an agricultural project for developing biofuel from rotting dates. The ‘dates-to-biofuel’ project implemented by an unnamed company based in UAE, […]
The Grain Board of Iraq (Ministry of Trade) has announced a tender for the supply of: 100,000 tonnes of wheat. The deadline for bids is 10:00 am Baghdad time on 5th March. 30,000 tonnes of rice. The deadline for bids is 10:00 am Baghdad time on 12th March. If the English version of the documents […]
The United Nations has prepared a comprehensive Briefing Book on Iraq, and presented it to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The book is comprised of two parts: The first part addresses key policy issues, including: macroeconomic challenges, development planning and prioritization, governance and public sector reform, anti-corruption, private sector development, social protection and the challenges of […]
Iraq's Ministry of Trade has announced that it has closed a deal to import 125,000 tons of rice from Thailand at a cost of $65 million in order to meet the demands of the government’s food-subsidizing ration card system. The General Manager of the Ministry’s Grain Company, Muthanna Jabbar, told AKnews that deals have been […]
By Ronald P Verdonk, Agricultural Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Looking at Iraqi agriculture over the past year, relatively abundant rainfall in late 2009 and through the first quarter of 2010 led to bumper 2010 wheat and barley crops. With last year’s domestic wheat harvest at just over 2.5 million metric tons and […]
