Iraq Business News brings you the latest news on developments and opportunities in Iraq agriculture.
Iraq is delaying the purchase of 18 American fighter jets because of budget problems, and has decided to use the money to buy food for the poor instead, said the Iraqi government spokesman on Monday. Associated Press reports that Iraq, like, many Middle Eastern countries in the wake of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, […]
The Grain Board of Iraq (Ministry of Trade) has announced a tender for the supply of plastic sheets. The deadline for bids is 10:00 am Baghdad time on 9th March. Please click here to download the tender document.
A spokesman for Iraq's Planning Ministry has blamed neighbouring countries for the decline in the country's potato crop. Iraq harvested 200,000 tons of potatos in 2010, compared to 223,000 tons in 2009 - a drop of almost 8%, Abdul-Zahra al-Hindawai told AKnews. He related the decline to the drop in the level of rivers flowing […]
Basra’s port of Umm Qasr received a shipment of more than 40,000 tons of rice on Sunday. According to the head of public relations at Iraq's ports department, Anmar al-Safi, the shipment was for the Ministry of Trade. “The ship Captain Hady from the Bahamas anchored at a quay in Umm Qasr with 40,045 tons […]
By Ronald P Verdonk, Agricultural Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Iraqi agriculture, like other sectors of the economy, has a lot of catching up to do in order to create jobs and play a more significant role in boosting GNP. Production of grain, vegetables and fruit faces a range of challenges of which […]
The Grain Board of Iraq (Ministry of Trade) has announced another tender on Monday for the supply of 100,000 tonnes of grain. Some experts cite this tender as a factor in the 1.6% jump in grain prices on Monday. Reuters quotes Brett Cooper, senior manager for markets at FCStone Australia, as saying: "Iraq has tendered […]
Iraq’s grain imports will decline after rainfall boosted crop production, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said. Bloomberg, citing a report from the UN’s Global Information and Early Warning System, says imports will fall to 4.91 million metric tons in the year ending on June 30, down 6.1 percent from the prior 12 months. […]
The Grain Board of Iraq (Ministry of Trade) has announced a tender for the supply of 100,000 tonnes of grain. The deadline for bids is 10:00 am Baghdad time on 2nd February, and if the English version of the documents are correctly translated, interested parties must visit the Grain Board's offices in Baghdad. Please click […]
The Iraqi Grain Board has just issued a new tender for the supply of 30,000 tonnes of rice. Offers are to be received by 10:00 am (Baghdad time) on 31st January. Please click here for more details.
Iraq has bought 120,000 tonnes of rice from abroad, Muthanna Jabbar, director general of Iraq's grains trading board, told Reuters on Sunday. He said Iraq bought 90,000 tonnes from the United States, and the remaining 30,000 tonnes from Argentina and Uruguay. Iraq, one of the world's biggest importers of rice and wheat, issued a tender […]
Iraq's Agriculture Ministry announced on Saturday the launch of a national project to safeguard against drought and reduce its impacts on the agricultural sector to be effective by 2015. Ministry spokesman Samir al-Obeidi told AKnews that the nationwide program requires improving the irrigation systems of more than three million acres of agricultural land. Obeidi said […]
Iraq’s Ambassador to the UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO), Hassan al-Janaby, has stated in Rome on Saturday that the prices of foodstuffs were increasing and all reports are indicating that the world is facing a very embarrasing situation, threatening to unleash a major hunger wave, but he said Iraq was able to satisfy the […]
