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      <title>Iraq’s Agriculture Ministry Boosts Fodder Crops Agriculture</title>
      <description>Iraq’s Agriculture Ministry allocated around two billion dinars to develop projects of fodder crops agriculture.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Iraq Asks United Nations to Intervene to Handle Drying Marshes</title>
      <description>Iraq requested the United Nations to intervene to deal with drying marshes, and resulting of humanitarian and environmental damage.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A Project of Developing Producing Strategic Seeds</title>
      <description>Agriculture initiative specified $ 20 M for project of developing producing strategic yields seeds included 4 axes.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Ministry of Agriculture, WFP Discuss Cooperation</title>
      <description>Ministry of Agriculture Secretary General, Radi Tarawneh, on Sunday discussed with U.N. World Food Program (WFP) Regional Advisor, Paul Philip Bovart, scopes of cooperation between Jordan and the U.N agency.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Iraq Sends a Letter to Ban Ki-moon on the Problem of the Marshes</title>
      <description>Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, called in a letter sent to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, to assist Iraq in addressing the problem of drought marshes.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>UAE Firm in Iraq Farm Deal</title>
      <description>Iraq is close to concluding a multi-billion dollar agriculture deal with a private sector firm in the UAE to lease farmland on a long-term basis, an official said.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Iraq to Conclude Huge Agro Deal with UAE Firm</title>
      <description>Iraq is close to concluding a multi-billion-dollar agriculture deal with a private sector firm in the United Arab Emirates to lease farmland on a long-term basis, an official said on Wednesday. Gulf countries, mainly reliant on food imports, have increased efforts over the last year to buy or lease...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Agricultural Bank Loans ID126b</title>
      <description>The Agricultural Bank has given more than ID126 billion in loans to farmers, the Bank’s director said on Wednesday.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Iraq, AOAD Sign MoU</title>
      <description>The Iraqi Agriculture Ministry signed on Tuesday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD).</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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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-20-11-2009</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-20-11-2009</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-20-11-2009</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-20-11-2009</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>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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