2023-12-28T08:53:13+00:00
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/ A local official in Diyala revealed, on Thursday, the expansion of areas of agricultural agriculture that depend on rain to a large extent.
The director of the Qazaniya border district with Iran, Mazen Akram, told Agency that Qazania includes more than 500 dunums suitable for agriculture, and the cultivated areas exceed 300 thousand dunums, an increase of 60-70% over previous seasons.
Akram described permaculture as “commerce with God,” as it depends on rain, noting that it has achieved significant gains for farmers by completing the first irrigation of winter crops during the current season.
He explained that the rains during the past 24 hours were moderate and relative, but they achieved significant returns for farmers in meeting the water needs of crops without the need for “seedling” irrigation at the present time.
The areas of agricultural land in the Qazaniya district exceed one million and 200 thousand dunams and depend mainly on wells in the summer and winter rains, in addition to limited areas that depend on “seeh” irrigation, that is, rivers and streams.
Because of Qazaniya’s remoteness (115 km east of Baqubah, the center of Diyala), and its border isolation with Iran, it suffers annually during the summer from water scarcity and the lack of water revenues allocated to it due to violations of the main stream that feeds it, the distance, and the waste of large amounts of water.