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Marketing about 114 thousand tons of wheat, barley, Kirkuk and marketers are demanding the extension of the deadline
Author: AMA Editor: CC | AA Friday, 08 تموز 2011 10:06 GMT
Alsumaria News / Kirkuk announced the Agriculture Department of the province of Kirkuk, on Friday, about marketing more than 114 tons of crops of wheat and barley to Saalwat province, confirmed the existence of a decline in rates of production during the current season due to lack of rain, while calling for a number of marketers and the Ministry of Commerce to extend the deadline for delivery of their crops. The director of agriculture of Kirkuk, Al Mahdi Mubarak in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "Saalwat Kirkuk and Hawija and Riyadh had received more than 114 thousand tons of crops of wheat and barley," noting that "the process of delivery are as prepared by the departments operating within the higher committee supervising to take over the crops, headed by the governor of Kirkuk Najm al-Din Omar. " Mubarak said that "agricultural plan for the current season took place on the agricultural area is estimated at 700 thousand acres, were divided to 616 thousand acres to grow wheat, 94 thousand acres for the cultivation of barley," noting that " been marketing the crop to a number of companies including Mesopotamia and Company Grain Trade. " Mubarak stressed that "the rain and cold, witnessed by the province during the current season, causing damage to large areas of land estimated at about ten thousand acres planted Mahsouli wheat and barley." from For his part, said one of marketers and called Mahmoud Hamad "Alsumaria News", "the deadline set by the Ministry of Commerce to collect the crops of wheat and barley from farmers and marketers is the tenth of this month," and urged in the time that "is to postpone the date to the end of the month because many farmers were not able to access the silos. " also attributed the marketer behind the al-Obeidi was delayed many of the farmers market their crops to the "waiting for days before the silos of the receipt," stressing "the need to cancel the schedule and make it the end of July, the ongoing marketing of the remainder of the crop to the Ministry of Commerce ". The director of the Department of Agriculture Kirkuk Mahdi Mubarak said in an interview earlier "Alsumaria News," The department has been able to plant about 900 acres of crops of wheat and barley in the last planting season, throughout the regions and districts of Kirkuk, adding that the amount reached about 328 thousand tons, the highest production recorded Kirkuk since 2003. and fired the Iraqi government, in August 2008, a comprehensive initiative for the advancement of the agricultural sector in the country, and set a time limit duration of ten years to achieve self-sufficiency of the strategic crops. depend majority of the population of the south west of Kirkuk on agriculture, but the lack of rainfall this year, hit by drought, and has low water level of Little Zab River, which supplied water from those areas across Lake Dokan in Sulaimaniyah province (110 km north east of Kirkuk) to exacerbate the crisis. The province of Kirkuk, about 250 km north of Baghdad, considered one of the largest producers of northern governorates of wheat and barley crops after Nineveh, but has seen its production decline after 2003 due to lack of irrigation water and lack of rainfall in sufficient quantities.
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