Wasit achieved a significant increase in fish production

Wasit achieved a significant increase in fish production


Range / Jabbar Bjay

Achieved the fisheries sector in Wasit province, a significant increase in production in the past year, production has reached more than seven thousand tons compared to five thousand tons in the previous year. This increase was a result of the expansion of fisheries projects, including floating docks with many productivity advantages, and continue to grant loans for educators in order to expand these projects, and expects to grow Wasit circle now, that the current production year rise to ten thousand tons. Citizens and a number of fish sellers in the province have confirmed that fish prices fell by more than 40%, making the owners of medium - sized and weak incomes, accept the fish eat after it was limited to people with high incomes.
Director of the Livestock Department in the Department of Agriculture and Wasit Peace Alexander's said (range), " The total lakes breeding fish in the province, arrived last year to 144 Lake, of which 50 Lake stopped due to water scarcity and lack of renewal of licenses by their owners, and that this increase great, making the fisheries sector is recovering significantly in the province, especially after the low prices and the increasing demand for purchase, and that one of the most important reasons for the expansion of production, is the resort breeders to create floating docks in the Tigris River, which now reached to 59 projects. It has helped this provision of loans and grants for educators, in addition to the features These basins which are being of great economic feasibility, and pointed out that, the Department of Agriculture granting the lakes owners, the amount of subsidized feed prices, including barley fodder and maize, at subsidized prices, in addition to the loans granted to the owners of new projects by project size and quality.
He Iskandar that "orientation educators towards the establishment of floating docks, due to a variety of reasons, of which they do not need to allocate land and provide water quota to them, especially Iraq is currently suffering from a shortage of water resources, in addition to the education in floating cages intensive, ie , it can breeding fish in the 2000 s R area of 24 square depth meter and a half - meter, which needs two dunums of land for the basin floor, alluding also to "reduce the cost of land drilling hand and work basins, as well as machinery, equipment, Matorat pumping and the establishment Alambazl expenses, and education in the clay basins normal, have effects on neighboring land and rising groundwater levels, leading to Ngdgaha and unsuitable for agriculture. "
In what was seen Iskandar, that "other factors that led to the expansion of the establishment of floating docks, is the control of these cages more than feeding and guarding and harvesting fish hand, as the work in the clay basins, needs more workers to multiple processes, including water drainage at harvest and the need to inject new water to these basins, with the use of devices for ventilation, especially in the summer, with no need to such steps in floating docks, being exposed to the passage of water stream continuously, believes that " the ease approvals for the establishment of floating cages of government departments, namely water resources, agriculture and environment Of municipal, unlike the clay basins, where you need more than ten government departments approval, and operates a "working Lakes water area of up to about five thousand acres, compared with a thousand and 156 dunums of lakes stalled for various reasons.
Director of the Livestock Department also stressed that the " total production basins floating, reached last year, two thousand tons of fish, bringing the total production of local fish is in Wasit province, it has reached seven thousand tons, except the quantities marketed by fishermen, who have free fishing in the Tigris River and other rivers and other lakes in the province and Arphion by the local market. "
On the other hand, saw a number of citizens of the province, the local fish prices recorded in the recent period , a significant decline ranged from 40 to 50 percent of the prices in the last period. Abdul imams Abdul - Hamza, a citizen said that "local fish prices in Wasit, has dropped significantly in recent months, compared with a significant increase in demand for fish, as the price per kilo reached between three and four thousand dinars."
He added , speaking (range) that "this decline in prices was due to the presence of large amounts of fish and the spread of basins and lakes own reared and dramatically unlike the former, where few basins, and thus the lack of production, which made the price per kilo gram of fish, up to eight thousand dinars, and that "eating fish in the past was confined between high income earners because of their prices to up to eight thousand dinars per kilogram."
confirmed Malik Jaber, one of the sellers of fish in the province, that "the decline in prices has led to increased demand local fish, marine fish compared to frozen As and Waasitiyyah families become prefer to fish a lot on red meat and chicken, because of the high first prices, and the fear of injuries among imported chicken and high domestic prices of chicken. "
Said Jaber" The government is directed to support the fisheries sector through the granting of loans and feed for educators, contributed to an increase fisheries projects, thereby increasing production and filling a large portion of the local market, explaining that " the daily sales of fish, also doubled , despite the fact that profit has become less, but good in all cases , and most importantly, the middle and weak entry owners, became able to eat fish After that it was It is confined to the high income earners. "
The Ministry of Agriculture has announced earlier about putting in place a plan for the rehabilitation of fisheries and increase production within the strategic plan of the Ministry in the next five years, and among those axes rehabilitation and the promotion of marine fishing, within the territorial waters , whether in agreement with foreign investment companies or Iraqi, and rehabilitation in Iraq , fish farms, as well as interest in terms of water and planting fingerlings fish where, especially areas of the marshes, as well as the provision of government support to the owners of existing lakes is by giving them soft loans to develop their projects and expansion.
It is noteworthy that many types of Iraqi fish, they abound in the marshes and in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, and the rest of sub - rivers, the most important Alktan, brown, Shilluk and Khushani and Hamri and Zori and other types.


[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]