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MP calls for accountability for the perpetrators of damage to hundreds of tons of dates
On: Sun 01/01/2012 6:21
Karbala / economic-term follow-up
member of the Council of Representatives called for Fouad Alldorki Ministry of Agriculture to hold accountable the perpetrators of damage to hundreds of tons of dates after the purchase from the farmers during the last season, considering that a significant loss of public money,
The Alldorki "Alsumaria News", "the Ministry of Agriculture to investigate the causes of damage to hundreds of tons of dates due to neglect and poor storage,"
said Alldorki that "those dates neglected not stored properly and remained vulnerable to environmental conditions caused Ptlvha," noting that it "no longer fit for human consumption and sold to feed the animals at 100 dinars per ton."
He noted that the purchase price of those dates by the state ranged between 350 and 450 thousand dinars per ton, "adding that" the big difference between the purchase price of those dates, and then sell harmed The damage is a setback and a major loss of public funds worth tens of billions of dinars, pointing out that what has been marketed by the owners of orchards of dates, have not kept in the warehouses of modern, "
and called on the ministry to develop a successful mechanism to take advantage of dates in terms of recycling and put it in local markets or export out.
The government has launched what is known as the initiative of agricultural in 2008 to develop the agricultural situation, and included many of the vocabulary, including raising the purchase prices of dates by the state to encourage farmers to pay attention palm groves and development.
It is noteworthy that Iraqi dates are of the finest species in the world, and includes about 60 species, while Iraq was the first country in the number of palm trees before falling back in the eighties of the last century, this place because of war and internal and external crises.
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