2024-02-13T09:51:10+00:00
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/ The Ministry of Agriculture revealed, on Tuesday, the success of the winter agricultural plan, while it expected to produce more than 5 million wheat.
The advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture, Mahdi Damd Al-Qaisi, told Shafak News Agency, “The Ministry of Agriculture provided seeds for the highest grades of wheat and barley, and distributed them to farmers and cultivators, according to the plan of the Ministry of Agriculture in cooperation with the Ministry of Water Resources.”
Al-Qaisi explained that “the rains that fell this year contributed to increasing the irrigation areas, and reduced reliance on wells and surface water, and were sufficient to irrigate the wheat and barley crops.”
Al-Qaisi expected an increase in production, which bodes well for a good agricultural season, stressing the continuation of work to reach advanced levels of agricultural yield, as a result of the ministry’s reliance on advanced irrigation, whether pivot or fixed, for the wheat crop.
Last Sunday, the Ministry of Agriculture, under the direction of the Minister of Agriculture, Abbas Jabr Al-Maliki, held the third meeting of the National Seed Council for the year 2023.
The meeting was chaired by the Ministry’s Administrative Undersecretary, Mahdi Sahar Al-Jubouri, in the presence of the Council members. The attendees discussed the items on the agenda, including reviewing the minutes of the meeting and the measures taken pursuant to it.
The meeting discussed the plan to prepare and distribute wheat seeds to the governorates for the 2023-2024 agricultural season, and to ensure that areas with unsecured rainfall are included in the preparation of wheat seeds, in addition to presenting and discussing the files submitted by the companies and departments affiliated with the ministry and private sector companies, and correcting a number of their paragraphs.
The spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Trade, Muthanna Jabbar, announced at the end of last year that Iraq’s strategic wheat reserves were sufficient until the end of April 2024.