German and American companies have proposed building a grain silo in Shatra County, north of Nassiriya, a Provincial Council member announced on Friday. Hamoud al-Shatri told Aswat al-Iraq that two companies proposed building the storage facility which will have a capacity of 30 thousand tons. The silo project is one of the main infrastructure projects […]
The governorate of Sulaimaniya is planning to build five grain silos by the end of 2012, according to Hama-Hussein Hama-Saeed, deputy general director at the Kurdistan trade ministry. AKnews reports that the silos, worth $116 million (138 billion Iraqi dinars), will have a capacity of 240,000 tons of grain. "With these silos, we'll be able […]
Bloomberg reports that Iraq has cancelled a tender for 50,000 metric tons of wheat. and is now inviting bids to buy 30,000 tons of rice from South America. Amer Abdel Aziz, spokesman for the country’s Grain Board, did not give a reason for the cancellation of the wheat tender when he spoke by phone to […]
The Grain Board of Iraq (Ministry of Trade) has announced a tender for the supply of 50,000 tonnes of wheat. The deadline for bids is 10:00 am Baghdad time on 6th September. Please click here to download the tender details.
Iraq’s wheat production will total 1.8 million metric tons this year, and the country is expected to become an exporter of the grain by 2015, Deputy Agriculture Minister, Ghazi al-Abudi, said at a press conference in Baghdad. Bloomberg reports the minister as saying that otput is on course to reach 2.25 million to 2.5 million […]
Iraq’s Trade Ministry has received 798,267 tons of wheat so far this year in different parts of Iraq, the Assistant Director General of the state-owned General Company for Trading of Crops, Jassem Mohammed Awad, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Sunday. Iraq’s wheat crop is very important, but it only produces about half of the […]
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 23rd April. Please click here to download the tender details.
Iraq has taken delivery of 400,000 metric tons of wheat and 127,000 tons of rice, according to Hassan Ismail Ibrahim, director general of the country’s Grain Board. Bloomberg reports that eight ships delivered the wheat from the U.S. and Australian suppliers, and four more boats unloaded rice imported from Thailand at the southern port of […]
Iraq received 52,500 metric tons of wheat and 41,109 tons of rice from U.S. suppliers, Hassan Ismail Ibrahim, director general of the Grain Board of Iraq, said. Two ships delivered the wheat and rice at the southern port of Umm Qasr, Ibrahim said in an e-mailed statement. The board last month signed 12 contracts to […]
Iraq is looking for foreign investment in its agriculture sector to help the country become self-sufficient in grain production by 2014, according to a report from Bloomberg. “We are offering incentives for farmers to speed up the process and we welcome foreign investors,” Agriculture Minister Ezzeddin al-Dawla [Izzuldin al-Doula] told reporters in Baghdad. Iraq wants […]
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.
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 […]
