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      <title>Agriculture Ministry Agrees to Provide 1546 Loans</title>
      <description>The specialized loans funds’ board agreed on Tuesday on 1546 loans with a total cost 25 billion Iraqi dinars ($21.5 million), the agriculture ministry said.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61595/refid/RSS-agriculture-07-11-2009</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Missan Offers 19 Farming Sites for Investment</title>
      <description>The local authority in Missan has offered 19 farming sites in the province for investment, the Missan governor said on Tuesday.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Syria Uses Water to Pressure Iraq</title>
      <description>Agriculture, water and marshes committee in Parliament announced that Syria reserves some of Euphrates River's water which released by Turkey for the country, and that could cause shortage at ensuring winter requirements.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61555/refid/RSS-agriculture-07-11-2009</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Northern Drought-displaced Farmers Look to Return Home</title>
      <description>Rain thoughout Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdistan region, which has been absent for two years, is prompting the return of farmers who had abandoned their land, according to officials.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61463/refid/RSS-agriculture-07-11-2009</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Six Strategic Projects to Develop Palm Trees' Growing</title>
      <description>Agriculture Ministry set up six strategic projects aim growing agriculture of palm trees in the country during next ten years and increase it to 50 million with allocations exceed ID10 billion.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/60971/refid/RSS-agriculture-07-11-2009</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Increasing Date Palms in Najaf During Last Years</title>
      <description>Numbers of palm trees in Najaf province have been increased to one million palms, due to the implementation of projects specialized to develop dates production over the last years.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/60964/refid/RSS-agriculture-07-11-2009</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Iraq Wants to Activate, Improve Agricultural Cooperation with Germany</title>
      <description>The Iraqi Agriculture Ministry’s Undersecretary, Sobhi al-Jomaili, met on Thursday with the director of the German commercial services center in Baghdad.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/60924/refid/RSS-agriculture-07-11-2009</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Appropriations of 13 Million IQD to Compensate Farmers in Kirkuk</title>
      <description>Member of Kirkuk province council for agriculture committee Riyadh Mohammed Danook said&#34; the higher committee to implement article No. 140 has allocated q worth of 13 million IQD to compensate the immigrant farmers where their lands lie within what so called ' security belt &#34;of disputed agricultural...</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/60833/refid/RSS-agriculture-07-11-2009</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>ID13b to Compensate Farmers in Kirkuk</title>
      <description>The higher committee to execute article 140 has allocated ID13 billion to compensate farmers in Kirkuk, a member of the province’s Council said on Tuesday.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/60798/refid/RSS-agriculture-07-11-2009</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Ministry of Agriculture Equips Farmers with Seeds and Fertilizer</title>
      <description>The Associate Director, Division of Agriculture city of Tal Afar, S'ado Ibrahim, declared obtaining the approval of the Ministry of Agriculture to supply farmers in the district of Tal Afar, with seeds and fertilizer.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/60700/refid/RSS-agriculture-07-11-2009</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Iraq's Once-thriving Honey Industry Battling to Regain Its Buzz</title>
      <description>Iraq’s once-flourishing honey industry is struggling to revive itself, hit by long-term environmental degradation and six years of unrest that followed the 2003 US-led invasion. “Honey production has fallen by almost half since the 1980s,” when output of the prized sweet reached a peak of 80...</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/60668/refid/RSS-agriculture-07-11-2009</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>We Plan to Reach Agricultural Self-sufficiency – Minister</title>
      <description>The Iraqi agriculture ministry is working on supporting strategic agricultural products to achieve food self-sufficiency, the minister said on Thursday.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/60513/refid/RSS-agriculture-07-11-2009</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>No Accord Without Ensuring Iraq's Water Share</title>
      <description>Agriculture and water committee member has confirmed that parliament won't attest any joint accord with Syria or Iran without guarantying Iraq's right in water share.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/60489/refid/RSS-agriculture-07-11-2009</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>PM Urges JICA to Participate in Agricultural, Reconstruction Projects</title>
      <description>Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday urged the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to participate in reconstruction, agricultural and drinking water projects in Iraq in general and Basra in particular, according to a statement by Maliki’s information office.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/60182/refid/RSS-agriculture-07-11-2009</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Irrigation Project Opened in Baghdad</title>
      <description>Water resources ministry, tends to start performing Salameyat irrigation project in Baghdad province in the aim of interring 12 000 acres to agriculture space again through the coming period after performing details and engineering designs by general directorate for engineering designs follows the...</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/60137/refid/RSS-agriculture-07-11-2009</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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