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Wassit, 09 February 2012 -- Implementation measures are currently underway for a green belt stretching 14 km in length north of Kut, the agriculture director said today.
Baghdad, 08 February 2012 -- The Iraqi Agriculture Ministry has announced plans to save 3.6bn cubic meters of water through the deployment of 35,000 irrigation sprinklers during the next planting season.
Duhok, 05 February 2012 -- Fish breeding projects will be boosted while imported fish will be cut back on in an attempt to capitalize on the growing popularity of fish in Kurdistan
Basra, 02 February 2012 -- The Chairman of southern Iraq's Basra Investment Commission, Khalaf al-Badran, has announced on Wednesday that a group of the Iranian Shahid Companies wish to invest in the ...
Baghdad, 30 January 2012 -- Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture completed a dead for purchasing nine helicopters from a French company.
19 January 2012 -- Iraq will increase local wheat production by about 74 percent to 3 million metric tons by 2015, according to Saleh Hussein Jabur, director general of state- owned Mesopotamia Seed ...
Baghdad, 19 January 2012 -- Premier Nouri al-Maliki disclosed that the federal budget of 2012 contained greater allocations to support the agricultural sector.
18 January 2012 -- The USAID-Inma Agribusiness Program has worked to re-establish key infrastructure in the primary fish hatcheries of the country. It revitalized the market through the introduction ...
Erbil, 16 January 2012 -- The Iraqi Council of Ministers is expected to decide whether or not to cancel agricultural contracts with the Arabs of Kirkuk under which the former Iraqi regime gave land ...
Wasit, 12 January 2012 -- After years of war, unexploded landmines are a big problem in Iraq. Now mines that are moving due to flooding and rain are causing farmers to simply abandon their land, rather ...
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