Agriculture is looking to market dates regionally and internationally

Agriculture is looking to market dates regionally and internationally



26/7/2017 12:00 am

Baghdad / Shukran al-Fatlawi
The start of encouraging agricultural production through various mechanisms raise the demand for him and improve the price level factor increases the productive capacities and improve the economy of the family and support the national economy, and Iraq is one of the most important dates producing countries and began to give this wealth of importance through the agreement with regional countries to export Iraqi dates, Positive on the way to promote the product. "The agricultural sector is a private sector in terms of excellence in terms of production, investment, export and farmers, and the ministry is supportive and supportive of this," he said. Sector.
He said in Hadithel "morning" that the step called by the Ministry of Agriculture, recently received Turkey surplus dates in the Iraqi markets, is positive to encourage the private agricultural sector to benefit from the techniques that excelled by the Turkish side in this area. Attracting the consumer and pointed out that the dates and dealing with them in sophisticated ways do competition with the other countries that export dates and packaged in a way that attracts the consumer, while at the same time gives the confidence that the dates are good and packaged in a healthy and subject to international standards. There are more than 360 varieties of dates in Iraq, and this is characteristic of Iraq from other producing countries, which provides a wider scope for global spread. The results of the date palm cultivation and its products since 2003 and the history of most palm orchards have been affected for a long time, which reflected negatively on their products, expressing the hope that there is a movement in this direction by the private sector in terms of date palm cultivation of all kinds of revenue for local output And stressed the need to develop and support the agricultural sector. He pointed out that what the Ministry has done is to support the private sector after the recent developments and developments in the country, especially in the past two years, pointing out that this is part of the measures provided by the government to develop and activate the private sector as a first stage, where cooperation with regional bodies for technical purposes such as packing And so on. Al-Sayegh pointed out that the state has visions and strategies to activate the economic reality in the country through the development of the private sector, which in turn has visions to develop its productive sector, including agricultural, to make it an integrated sector in terms of production, packaging and marketing, pointing to the importance of the existence of specialized companies, similar to the countries of the world in the above From a local product in a modern, modern and competitive manner to goods offered by other countries or international companies. Promotion of competition Asaad Jabbar Salman, owner of Bustan Nakheel, pointed out that the producers of dates suffer from the lack of markets commensurate with the value of Iraqi dates, where Iraqi orchards produce all kinds of dates and this era of excellence and enhance competition in world markets, pointing out that the recent move by the Ministry of Agriculture to export dates to one Neighboring countries have created our hope that our production will be economically viable and find its way to world markets, especially since everyone knows the importance of Iraqi dates. He called for the necessity of activating the extension programs organized by the ministry concerned, as well as the return of the palm pest control program, which is not reinforced by owners of orchards for the need for aircraft and other mechanisms as well as pesticides. He expressed his willingness to expand the area occupied by palm growing if the demand for dates produced by the demand increases. The reception of dates was Undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture d. "The Minister of Agriculture Falah Zaidan expressed his hope during his meeting with the Turkish ambassador in Baghdad the importance of activating Turkish companies to receive Iraqi dates," noting that "Iraq has a surplus of dates for export." He pointed out that this comes "to promote the economic value of Iraqi dates and the national economy and that these dates come out on behalf of Iraq through the export to Turkey or any other country," noting that "


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