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12 January 2012 -- The olive industry in Iraq is beginning to grow and prosper, and much of the credit for the growth belongs to the USAID-Inma Agribusiness Program.
12 January 2012 -- Iraqi rice yields have dropped to 108,000 tons this year from an average 200,000 tons it used to produce annually, a statement by the country’s Grain Board showed.
Amman, 05 January 2012 -- Prime Minister Awn Khasawneh on Wednesday met with Iraqi Minister of Agriculture Izz Al Din Abdullah and discussed the possibility of easing restrictions on Jordanian agricultural ...
05 January 2012 -- Deputy Environment Minister Kamal Hussein said to "Shafaq News", the Ministry of Environment has completed an operational plan to initiate a strategic project to combat desertification ...
Sulamaniya, 02 January 2012 -- Kurdistan Regional Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources gave loans to almost 1,500 individual projects in 2011, an official said.
28 December 2011 -- KBR announced that it has been awarded a contract by First Global Company to revamp the North Fertilizer Plant in Baiji, Iraq.
Erbil, 24 December 2011 -- A new silo with the capacity of storing 60,000 tons of wheat is under construction.
20 December 2011 -- Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. (GKP) pared gains after climbing to a record in London trading after it denied a report that Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) is considering a 7 billion-pound ...
Kirkuk, 19 December 2011 -- At the request of the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday the High Committee for returning land taken by the previous regime decided to return 90 acres of land to their original ...
Erbil, 17 December 2011 -- Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Ministry of Agriculture is setting the stage for growing and processing olive in Kurdistan.
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