Baghdad – INA – Amna Al-Salami
The Ministry of Agriculture introduced as we speak, Tuesday, the advertising of greater than two million tons of wheat to date, and whereas indicating entry into the height advertising stage, it confirmed that Iraq has achieved self-sufficiency in lots of crops.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry, Mahdi Sahar al-Jubouri, informed the (INA): “The advertising course of throughout the advertising season for the wheat crop for the present agricultural season 2023-2024 continues within the central and southern Euphrates governorates, and it started within the northern areas in the course of the previous few days.”
Al-Jubouri added, “The advertising course of witnessed nice movement by the Ministry of Commerce’s silos relating to the marketed grains,” stating that “the portions marketed by farmers of wheat crops to the Ministry of Commerce’s silos have to date exceeded two million tons.”
He continued, “We’ve reached the height stage of manufacturing with the entry of governorates with massive areas that produce wheat, particularly Wasit, Salah al-Din, Nineveh, and Kirkuk, into the advertising course of,” noting that “this may enhance the tempo of the advertising course of and the portions exported to the Ministry of Commerce.”
He identified that “Iraq has achieved self-sufficiency in vegetable crops and plenty of fundamental agricultural crop merchandise, and now we have portions exported overseas, particularly to Gulf markets and a few European Union nations.”
He continued: “We discover that some merchandise enter the native markets via smuggling,” calling on the Ministry of the Inside, Organized Crime and Financial Safety to “cut back smuggling operations within the native markets attributable to their nice hurt within the course of of business dumping, at diminished costs and fluctuating manufacturing prices within the native markets.”