http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/scat/24 The latest news about Agriculture in Iraq en support@iraqupdates.com support@iraqupdates.com PHP RSS Feed Generator 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. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107760/refid/RSS-agriculture-08-02-2012 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:29:00 +0000 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 http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107605/refid/RSS-agriculture-08-02-2012 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:19:00 +0000 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 agricultural field in Basra... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107439/refid/RSS-agriculture-08-02-2012 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:59:00 +0000 Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture completed a dead for purchasing nine helicopters from a French company.  http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/107248/refid/RSS-agriculture-08-02-2012 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:56:00 +0000 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 Co. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/106679/refid/RSS-agriculture-08-02-2012 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:24:00 +0000 Premier Nouri al-Maliki disclosed that the federal budget of 2012 contained greater allocations to support the agricultural sector. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/106633/refid/RSS-agriculture-08-02-2012 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:35:00 +0000 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 and distribution of improved fingerlings, and the transfer of critical technologies, which have led to a boom in the Iraqi... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/106622/refid/RSS-agriculture-08-02-2012 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:04:00 +0000 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 to Arabs in an attempt... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/106429/refid/RSS-agriculture-08-02-2012 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:15:00 +0000 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 than risk death or injury. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/106507/refid/RSS-agriculture-08-02-2012 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:41:00 +0000 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. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/106317/refid/RSS-agriculture-08-02-2012 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:59:00 +0000 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. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/106316/refid/RSS-agriculture-08-02-2012 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:59:00 +0000 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 exports to Iraq. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/105938/refid/RSS-agriculture-08-02-2012 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:50:00 +0000 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 in Iraq. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/105905/refid/RSS-agriculture-08-02-2012 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:21:00 +0000 Kurdistan Regional Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources gave loans to almost 1,500 individual projects in 2011, an official said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/105697/refid/RSS-agriculture-08-02-2012 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:20:00 +0000 KBR announced that it has been awarded a contract by First Global Company to revamp the North Fertilizer Plant in Baiji, Iraq. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/105486/refid/RSS-agriculture-08-02-2012 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:54:00 +0000