Iraq Business News brings you the latest news on developments and opportunities in Iraq agriculture.
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 […]
An official in the Iraqi Ports Department reported on Wednesday that a ship carrying Iraqi dates is en-route for one of the Gulf States, the first shipment of this once world-famous Iraqi product to leave the country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. AKnews reports that the director of the Department’s media office, Ammar al-Safi, […]
An adviser tp the outgoing Iraqi government said on Monday that a high commission to support food security in the country has been formed to alleviate the suffering of Iraq’s poor. Arif Mohammed told AKnews that the outgoing Iraqi government formed the commission that includes the Health, Labour, Social Affairs, Finance and Commerce ministries. "The […]
A Turkish company has expressed readiness to rehabilitate a poultry project in Diwaniya at a cost of $100 million [117 billion Iraqi dinars]. This came during a meeting the chairman of the agriculture and water resources committee in Diwaniya, Baqer Ali al-Shaalan, held on Wednesday (Oct. 6) with a delegation of a Turkish company. “Talks […]
