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Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Ministry of Agriculture announced Tuesday, for achieving self-sufficiency in crops, fruits and vegetables, indicating that the import of these crops is codified and certain period of time, while confirming that he has imported many kinds of fruit trees from abroad that have not been grown previously in Iraq. said agent The ministry Mehdi ligature Qaisi in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "The ministry was able to and through the initiative of agricultural self-sufficiency for fruits and vegetables," noting that it "allowed the importation of those crops during this period to four kinds of only a potato, garlic, onion and sophistication." he added Qaisi said, "What is being imported from these crops is not absolute, but rather codified but a certain period and depends on what is in the market and the adequacy of the consumer," he said, adding that "the ministry is seeking to achieve its goal of the first which is to achieve food security through local product." said Qaisi that " achieve self-sufficiency in vegetables and fruits, paying the ministry to ban imported from abroad in support of local production and to ensure economic return good for farmers, "pointing out that he" was imported many kinds of fruit trees from abroad that have not been grown previously in Iraq, and with the same specifications Agricultural in those countries. " witnessing the Iraqi market, sometimes to a significant rise in the prices of agricultural crops of fruit and vegetables in the local markets, especially in the month of Ramadan, anniversaries, holidays and continue these prices for a while until after the end of the holidays. launched by 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. initiative includes support farmers with seeds, fertilizers and pesticides, land reclamation and ensure the purchase of production of strategic crops at market prices, in addition to the allocation of loan funds a variety of including the Development Fund palm of existing ones and the new Fund, modern irrigation techniques, and fund livestock, and a fund to support strategic projects, as well as lending fund small farmers. noteworthy that the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture had been imposed for the first time a partial ban on the import of vegetables from the first of May of in 2009 to protect the local product after many claims made by a number of farmers and economists Iraqis to prevent flooding the Iraqi market of imported vegetables.http://www.alsumaria.tv/news/82396/الزراعة-حققنا-الاكتفا-الذاتي-من-محاصيل-ا/ar
