Imported from Saudi Arabia and Iran dates sink into local markets

Imported from Saudi Arabia and Iran dates sink into local markets


 Baghdad / term

Announced specialists in the agricultural sector, on Saturday, that the neighboring countries , including Saudi Arabia and Iran practiced dumping the Iraqi market Baltimore policy during these days in conjunction with the holy month of Ramadan, stressing domestic production has fallen sharply as a result of government negligence, as noted specialists that 44% of Iraqi palm wiped out because of the wars and the policy of bulldozing orchards, the Ministry of Agriculture revealed the arrival of domestic production ratio to 13% of the total agricultural production year.
Says Mohammed Karim (seller dates in a Baghdad market), " The sales of dates during the month of Ramadan , often doubled because of the Iraqi customs and traditions , " noting that "most of the dates that we sell imported from abroad , especially from Iran."
He adds cream (range), that "Iraq 's production of dates say very significantly over the past years as a result of profit a lot of imported dates and the lack of economic policy that protects local dates and increase production."
The Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, confirmed that the number of palm trees in Iraq stood at 17 million palm trees, indicating that date production was the highest ascetic among the dates and 54%.
And confirms the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture in Parliament, Furat al - Tamimi "long", said that "what Iraq possessed by Nakheel between 12 million palm trees to 20 million palm trees, although in the past, the number of palm trees 30 million palm trees, and the back drop for several reasons , including the war Iraq - Iran 's second Gulf war, make the province of Basra Almsthrh production dates of the battle arena , "noting that" the former regime did not care about the cultivation of palm trees, but focused on strategic crops that enter the vocabulary of the ration card. "
Tamimi noted that "after 2003 neglected the agricultural sector and began to use the leveling of their owners policy without government intervention and transformed the orchards into residential land affected in the production of dates, in addition to the exacerbation of an insect Dubas hit the palm of them very much , but in the past years , controlled by the Ministry of Agriculture."
And the head of the parliamentary agriculture that " the production of Iraqi dates affected by the dumping policy carried out by some neighboring countries , as well as not to impose tariffs Kmarkip," noting that " the Iraqi date needs to be a good marketing process through the canned and exported to neighboring countries , " .oaazzo economists local , domestic production atrophy and decline due to "decreasing the number of Iraqi palm," referring to the suffering of agricultural land in the southern provinces of desertification and environmental crisis.
And suspends economic Durgham Mohamed Ali, a decline in the production of dates, saying that "Iraq two decades ago gave up his position as the top producer of dates in the world because of the decreasing number of palm trees , especially in southern Iraq," adding that " the palm preparation in 1980 is estimated at 30 million palm trees carrying more than 100 varieties of high - quality dates. "
Ali points out that "wars fought the country in the past years and the desertification of agricultural land and poor government attention, led to a significant decline in the number of palm trees and the extinction of many rare species, which reflected negatively on Iraq 's production of local dates."
Local economic and confirmed (range), that " the decline in Iraqi palm production and delayed production to the end of August, allowed other countries to market Tamorha manufactured and packaged in Iraq , such as Saudi Arabia and Iran , " pointing out that "recently witnessed the opening of a limited number of date palm plants Iraqi , but it still does not fully satisfy the need for Iraq. "
In turn, promised the Ministry of Agriculture, production of dates actually good for the local agricultural sector, noting that, the proportion of total production in the proportion of up to satisfactory.
According to the Technical Agent of the Ministry Mehdi ligature Qaisi, that " the size of the palm cultivation is estimated to 13% of the total agriculture sector in Iraq, a good percentage compared to the numbers of palm in the day , " noting that "Iraq is one of the exporting of dates countries, because of the efficiency of the palms."
And export statistics for the year 2016, al - Qaisi pointed out that "Iraq was issued last year , 600 thousand tons of the finest types of dates to about 34 countries."

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