The Director General of Iraq's Grain Board expects wheat production to fall by 16 percent to 1.5 million metric tons this year because of drought, forcing the country to boost imports to 3 million tons. “Unfortunately, there is a drought this year in the northern provinces,” Ibrahim told Bloomberg. “Last year production was around 1.78 million […]
Wheat prices surged on Wednesday after Iraq said it bought 400,000 metric tons from the U.S., Australia, Russia, Romania and Kazakhstan. The contracts are for delivery in July and August, a spokesman for the grain board told Bloomberg. (Sources: Bloomberg, Reuters)
Reuters reports that Iraq has bought 300,000 metric tons of wheat and 150,000 tons of rice According to Hassan Ibrahim, Director General of the Iraqi Grain Board, the rice was all from Thailand, while the wheat was: 150,000 tons from Australia; 100,000 tons from Canada; and, 50,000 tons from Kazakhstan. (Source: Reuters)
Iraq's Ministry of Agriculture will cultivate six million doumns [1.5 million hectares] of land to produce 48 percent of the country's wheat demand, according to AKnews. This is the equivalent of 2.2 million tons of wheat, said general director of investment projects at the ministry Sabah Dar'e. Iraq requires more than four million tons of […]
Iraq plans to produce 4.5 million tons of wheat, and substantial increases in other cereals, according to a report from Azzaman. This would mean the country would meet its domestic requirements of around 3.5 million tons, with a 1 million ton surplus available to export. The Undersecretary at the Agriculture Ministry, Ghazi al-Aboudi, said the […]
Payment for wheat exports to Iraq in the late 1980s will finally be distributed to growers in Australia, according to a report from Weekly Times Now. Grain growers will share in about $48m in repayment of debt owed by Iraq relating to three wheat pools run by the former Australian Wheat Board, and affecting 52,000 […]
Dow Jones reports that the Iraqi Grain Board bought 300,000 metric tons of Canadian wheat from a tender which closed on 13th March 13. The head of the board, Hassan Ismail Ibrahim, told the agency that: 100,000 tons were bought from Jordan-registered Jresat at $361/ton cost and freight; 100,000 tons from Glencore International at $356/ton […]
Iraq's wheat crop is expected to decline further if rains do not arrive soon, according to a report from BlackSeaGrain. Although some small showers have helped the crop, wheat yields are already down by 11 per cent on the last seasons crop. If the rains do not arrive Iraq will most likely need to increase […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bloomberg reports that Iraq bought 400,000 metric tons of wheat from Russia, Australia and Canada. The amounts were: 150,000 tons from Canada; 150,000 tons from Russia; and, 100,000 tons from Australia, Hassan Ismail Ibrahim, director general of the Grain Board, told Bloomberg by telephone. The deadline for the tender expired on 4th December. Iraq plans […]
