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Baghdad, 11 August 2010 -- The Iraqi Agriculture Ministry has decided to lend around $12.8 million to farmers and farming projects.
11 August 2010 -- Iraqi farmers say they expect a hike in the production of dates in central and southern parts of the country.
11 August 2010 -- The Ministry of Agriculture said it would remove a ban it had slapped on the import of certain vegetables which are in short supply in the country.
Kirkuk, 09 August 2010 -- The mayor of Mintaqa town was shot dead and a police was wounded by farmers in Kirkuk on Sunday, cording to the press secretary of Kirkuk police forces.
08 August 2010 -- Long dry spells and high summer temperatures are no help in taming wildfires in Kurdistan's mountains.
Diwaniya, 06 August 2010 -- The head of the Agriculture Committee in Qadisiya provincial council has demanded the parliament and the government on Thursday to "equalize the financial allocations of ...
06 August 2010 -- Kurdistan Ministry of Agriculture decided to ban importing honey from outside the region in order to encourage the local honey production.
Basra, 05 August 2010 -- The director of the agriculture department in Basra province said on Wednesday that palm cultivation in the region is on the decrease, indicating several causes including governmental ...
05 August 2010 -- Diyala Province Agriculture Directorate said today that it promoted more than 60000 tones of wheat and barley to two silos for cereals storing in the Province.
Erbil, 04 August 2010 -- Numerous fires have burned over 1,000 hectares of orchards and pastures in the Soran region, 60 km east of the Kurdish capital of Erbil, during the past eight months, an official ...
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