2024-01-25T07:39:46+00:00
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/ Al-Azim Agricultural District, north of Diyala Governorate, warned on Thursday of a major danger threatening the winter agricultural plan in the district due to water scarcity and lack of water releases.
The former head of the Al-Azim Council and the most famous wheat farmer in the district, Muhammad Ibrahim Difan, told Agency, that more than 30 thousand dunams of wheat are threatened with destruction due to water scarcity, lack of rain, and lack of water releases coming from the Al-Azim Dam, indicating that the rate of water releases is 8 m3/s of what is needed. area to 15 m3/s at the very least to meet the needs of the winter plan.
He explained that the wheat crop has entered the second irrigation stage, and water revenues are still scarce and insufficient to complete irrigation, despite demands and appeals to the General Authority for Reservoirs and Dams, affiliated with the Ministry of Water Resources.
In addition, specialized sources confirmed that the Al-Azim Dam’s stock decreased from 150 million cubic meters to about 100 million cubic metres, and this reaches the limits of dead, non-drainable storage.
Al-Azim district, (60 km north of Baqubah), is the most prominent agricultural area in Diyala. It is called the Diyala Food Basket. It includes 400,000 dunams of agricultural land and 45 agricultural villages. It is famous for exporting the production of rice annually and marketing it to the Diyala regions and other governorates.
The district represents the wheat production market in Diyala and has been at the forefront of production rates for many years.