Baghdad – Ina
The Ministry of Commerce introduced at present, Saturday, the achievement of the targets of the advertising and marketing season for the 2024 wheat crop by the portions of wheat marketed by peasants and farmers, whereas indicating the achievement of self-sufficiency and meals safety.
The ministry’s official spokesman, Muhammad Hanoun, mentioned in a press release acquired by the (INA): “The advertising and marketing season for the 2024 wheat crop achieves its targets by the portions of wheat marketed by peasants and farmers, which can contribute to attaining self-sufficiency and reliance on the nationwide product, which contributes to attaining safety.” Iraqi meals.
He added, “Giant-scale advertising and marketing operations are persevering with within the governorates of Mosul, Kirkuk, and Diyala, in addition to different Iraqi governorates, whereas advertising and marketing operations have begun to decrease within the central and southern governorates after the completion of crop deliveries, based on the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture, throughout the agricultural season.”
He identified that “the success achieved on this yr’s advertising and marketing season got here because of the nice assist given by the Prime Minister to farmers by paying monetary dues inside solely 48 hours after finishing administrative and monetary procedures, in addition to excessive transparency in receiving the crop and stopping instances of wheel pile-up that occurred in Earlier years, after the choice to proceed work inside 24 hours, in addition to checking laboratory inspections, stopping the entry of any kind of wheat courting again to earlier years, and adhering to the plan of the Ministry of Agriculture.”
Hanoun identified, based on the assertion, “a variety of safety measures carried out by the joint operations, safety providers, and the Business and Monetary Management Division within the Ministry of Commerce, with the intention of stopping the entry of any portions coming from unknown sources or saved in warehouses courting again to earlier years, as they’re handled by hand-holding.” And return it to the Mesopotamian Firm within the Ministry of Agriculture and deduct it from the entire share of the farmer or farmer.”
He continued, “The success of selling operations and the identification of violations that occurred in earlier seasons contributed to offering all services to farmers as a way to obtain self-sufficiency, which contributed to Iraq changing into a wheat-producing nation, which constitutes a strategic precedence in attaining meals safety.”
Final week, the Basic Firm for Grain Commerce within the Ministry of Commerce opened the “Rufia” yard, in Nineveh Governorate, whereas delivering the primary portions of marketed wheat, within the context of searching for to extend storage capacities within the governorate.
On Friday (April 26, 2024), the Ministry of Commerce introduced the receipt of 270 thousand tons of wheat to date, whereas it anticipated the portions acquired throughout the present advertising and marketing season to achieve 7 million tons.