Baghdad – IA – Hendren Makki
Right now, Friday, the Ministry of Agriculture introduced the success in reclaiming 4 million dunums of desert land, whereas revealing the introduction of three million dunums into the wheat cultivation plan this 12 months and growing the realm of land cultivated with milkshakes.
Ministry spokesman Muhammad Al-Khuzaie advised the (INA): “4 million dunams of desert land have been reclaimed for agriculture, utilizing sprinklers and groundwater for the winter season of wheat cultivation this season.”
He added, “The agricultural areas for wheat cultivation that depend upon river water are estimated at one and a half million dunums, whereas the agricultural areas that depend upon rainwater, that are referred to as Dimiya and semi-Dimiya lands and included within the agricultural plan, are estimated at two and a half million dunums.”
He added, “With regard to lands cultivated with wheat, three million dunums have been included that have been exterior the plan, bringing the dimensions of the areas cultivated with the crop to 11 million dunums.”
Al-Khuzaie pressured that “the present 12 months’s scenario is healthier than final 12 months with regard to the wheat crop, and the areas cultivated with the Shallot crop additionally elevated because of the advance within the water scenario from 5 thousand dunums final 12 months to 150 thousand dunums for this season, with 80 thousand dunums for Najaf Governorate and 50 thousand dunums for Diwaniyah Governorate and the remainder of the areas.” It was distributed among the many governorates of Muthanna, Babil, Dhi Qar and Maysan.
He identified that “the advance of the water scenario got here due to the federal government’s profitable measures and negotiations, because the flows of the Tigris River by way of the Turkish facet elevated. Rainfall quantities have been additionally invested in nourishing extra lands this 12 months, which contributed to growing water shares.”