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Ministry of Agriculture announced on Monday, the high yield of wheat for the current year 2013 to more than three million and 200 thousand tons, stressing that Iraq is on the doors of the threshold of self-sufficiency in wheat. , the ministry said in a statement received "Alsumaria News," a copy of it, that "The Ministry of Commerce received until today (August 12) three million and 226 thousand tons of wheat, compared to last year 2012 which the amounts received which 2.011 million tons," pointing out that "the rise is due to the Ministry's plans strategy which focused on the wheat crop, which is key foundation for food security of Iraq. " explained the Ministry of Agriculture as "fired two presidents in order to increase per unit area and productivity yields dunam of wheat through the National Project for modern irrigation techniques through which gives peasants system sprinkler, fixed and mobile, and different capacities depending on the nature of agricultural land and space," indicating "The project aims to cover three million acres planted with wheat using this technique, which works to provide irrigation water in addition to the use of liquid fertilizer." and added that "the second project is to find varieties of wheat with high productivity and specifications of premium quality, in addition to disease resistance and salinity and drought, "asserting" the use of packets agricultural including organic fertilization and control of biological, as well as the distribution of seeds of higher ranks on the peasants and farmers. " and showed the Ministry of Agriculture that "projects resulted in an increase exceeded 50% of what has been received of wheat last year, according to statistics of the Ministry of Commerce" , pointing out that "Iraq is at the doors of the threshold of self-sufficiency in wheat." The Ministry of Agriculture announced that, in the (May 8, 2013), a plan to export wheat Iraq out of the country during the year 2018 by producing three million tons of wheat Iraq by modern irrigation techniques, and an area of more than three millions of acres of arable land in all areas of Iraq. fired the Iraqi government in August of 2008, a comprehensive initiative to promote the agricultural reality in the country, and set a time limit duration of ten years to reach Iraq stage of self-sufficiency in strategic crops. The amounts distributed ration card items to be provided annually 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 baby formula and 600 thousand tons of edible oil.
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