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Trade: marketing more than 100 thousand tons of rice, last year
On: Tue 03/01/2012 7:45
□ Baghdad / economic-term follow-up
Ministry of Commerce announced on marketing more than 100 thousand tons of rice, crop during the last planting season, 2011, as indicated that it marketed more than 1.0007 million tons of wheat and barley during the last agricultural season.
The Director General of the General Company for Grain Trade Hassan Ismail Ibrahim in the statement issued by the ministry as "Alsumaria News", received the long version of it, that "the sites marketing in the provinces received, even today, 100 thousand and 504 tons of the crop of rice, during the last planting season," noting that "Najaf is still at the top of the other provinces where the received positions marketing 66 thousands and 778 tons of the crop, followed by the province of Diwaniyah and the quantity amounted to 32 thousand and 990 tons, and then the province of Muthanna and the quantity amounted to 736 tons."
Ibrahim said that "the sites marketing for the company also received million and 735 thousand and 646 tons of wheat and barley types, despite the weather conditions and the decline of the rain that accompanied the season in addition to continuing the flow of ships loaded with wheat imported to the country. "
and he added that "the port of Umm Qasr received during the recent period of last year, five ships carrying more 209 thousand and 920 tons of wheat, Canadian, Russian, along with a ship loaded with 30 thousand and 225 tons of rice, the American South, "pointing out that" the company continues processing mills government and private wheat and by mixtures approved and available the actual grain. "
and the amounts of the ration card items to be provided per year divided by four million and 400 thousand tons of wheat and about one million tons of rice and 800 thousand tons of sugar, and 500 thousand tons of milk for children and 600 thousand tons of edible oil.
The majority of Iraqis are dependent on the ration card in their daily lives since the start of the siege on Iraq in 1991 after its invasion of Kuwait, and include vocabulary ration per capita rice, flour, vegetable oil, sugar, tea, washing powder, soap, milk powder (for adults), and powdered milk (for children), and Albaqulyat lentils, beans and chickpeas. The value of these materials per capita in the local market about ten dollars, not counting children's milk, while is obtained through the ration card of $ 250 dinars only.
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