Iraq Business News brings you the latest news on developments and opportunities in Iraq agriculture.
Iraq Ministry of Trade has issued tenders for the supply of 100,000 tonnes of white sugar. Closing date for bids is mid-day on Monday 17th January. Please click here to download the details in English, and here to download the Arabic version.
Iraq's Agriculture Minister has allocated 112 billion Iraqi Dinars (IQD) [over $95m] to purchase dates from the local growers. The deputy head of the ministry’s finance and management board told AKnews that the decision is to support and encourage the farmers and boost the agriculture sector. Each ton of first grade dates will be purchased […]
Following on from our listing on Monday of the main cabinet positions, we present a more complete line-up below, compiled from information sourced from Iraq Oil Report and Reuters. The official website of the Iraq cabinet has not published the official list, and has chosen instead to lead with an article about the importation of […]
Iraq's Minister of Water Resources, Abdul-Latif Jamal Rashid, has laid the corner stone for the 350 billion dinar [$300m] Shatt al-Arab Canal project, aimed at pumping pure water for Basra Province and irrigation water for 250,000 donums of agricultural lands, according to a report from Aswat al-Iraq. Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, had launched a […]
The Grain Board of Iraq has issued a tender for the supply of 100,000 tonnes of wheat. Offers must be received by 10:00 am (Baghdad local time) on 5th of December, and remain valid until 12th December. (Source: Grain Board of Iraq)
We reported recently on the excessive salaries and expenses being drawn by Iraq's parliamentarians -- it now seems the country has run out of money to pay for widows' benefits, farm crops and other programs for the poor. According to Associated Press, in only the parliament's fourth session since being elected in March, its members […]
Iraq's State Foodstuff Company (SFSC) has issued an international tender to purchase: 30,000 tonnes of sunflower oil 2-3,000 tonnes of baby milk powder, and 30,000 tonnes of vegetable ghee. Full details can be downloaded below: vegetable-ghee_14.11.2010.5 english vegetable-ghee_14.11.2010.6 arabic sunflower-oil_14.11.2010.3 english sunflower-oil_14.11.2010.4 arabic milkpowder_14.11.2010.1 english milkpowder_14.11.2010.2 arabic
Iraq has just signed more orders for 100,000 tonnes of wheat from the USA, another 100,000 from Australia, and 50,000 from Ukraine. Iraq imports lots of wheat, with which it manufactures flour to use with its ration cards. The ration cards are seen by some Iraqis as better than money and for many are essential support. […]
Water levels in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, two of Iraq's main water sources, are falling and temperatures in Iraq are rising, according to the UN Interagency Information and Analysis Unit. The rivers have dropped to less than a third of normal capacity and desertification is spreading. "The tendency of rainfall in general is continuously declining," said Deputy […]
France is expected to help Iraq and the Kurdistan Region to develop the agriculture sector, according to the French Minister of Foreign Trade who opened a French agriculture house in Erbil on Monday. Anne-Marie Idrac arrived in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, after landing in Baghdad the day before in what became the first […]
Eurocopter has just signed an agreement to supply seven AS350 B3 Ecureuil helicopters to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. The choppers will be used for spraying date palm trees, which provide a major source of agricultural revenue for the country. Deliveries of these single-engine rotary-wing aircraft will begin in the first quarter of 2011, with […]
The Kurdistan Regional Government has decided to construct a large dam in the village of Aqhoban in the Hiran region, in the district Shaqlawah [Shaqlawa]. The Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources has allocated more than six billion dinars for the project, which will be implemented by the two companies; work will start in the […]
