The crisis is over..Kurdistan products are “local” in the markets of central and southern Iraq

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[size=52]The crisis is over..Kurdistan products are “local” in the markets of central and southern Iraq[/size]

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[size=45]On Thursday, Erbil and Baghdad agreed to agree on a unified program for marketing agricultural crops and poultry, as well as lifting the obstacles that prevented sending the region's crops to the central and southern governorates and vice versa.[/size]
[size=45]This came in light of the presidential order of the Kurdistan Regional Council of Ministers, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government.[/size]
[size=45]And the ministry explained in its statement, that "a high-ranking delegation from it visited the Federal Ministry of Agriculture (within the framework of the memorandum of understanding) signed on May 31, 2021 between the two ministries, with the aim of formulating a unified agricultural work program to protect the crops of the farmers of Iraq and the region in general, and holding meetings within days. 5, 6 and 7 of this month, with the Minister of Agriculture in Baghdad, the Undersecretary of the Ministry and its officials.[/size]
[size=45]The delegation of the Kurdistan Region included the Ministry's advisor Rizgar Hamad Khader (supervisor), and the membership of the representative of the Kurdistan Regional Prime Minister's Office, the Director General of Trade in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, the Director General of Animal Resources and Veterinary Affairs, and the Director of Animal Resources.[/size]
[size=45]The ministry added, "The meetings resulted in the issuance of a number of decisions, including the formation of a joint committee from both sides under the supervision of the Undersecretary of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and the Undersecretary of the Kurdistan Ministry of Agriculture, and advisors and general managers on both sides, with the aim of issuing a unified agricultural program, which resulted in the formation of an operations room of the two delegations to address marketing Agricultural crops and problem solving.[/size]
[size=45]According to the statement, the Federal Minister of Agriculture decided to receive the product from the region’s farmers within and outside the delivery plan, calling at the same time to “urgently direct (CD) for the region’s farmers’ wheat, in return for a pledge to demand the Federal Minister of Trade to open the silos of the Kurdistan Region, earlier than The past years, to be on the first of next May, in order to receive the wheat of the farmers of Kurdistan.”[/size]
[size=45]The Ministry of Agriculture of the Kurdistan Regional Government noted the agreement to “name the agricultural products in the region as the local product, in order to be able to send them to the central and southern regions of Iraq without problems.”[/size]
[size=45]In order to facilitate the process of marketing the local product in the Kurdistan Region, including all agricultural products, poultry, eggs and others, it was agreed to fill out a special form, ratify and assign it by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Region, until this form is prepared by the Committee to allow passage and provide facilities for the export of agricultural product from Kurdistan to regions Central and South,” according to the statement.[/size]
[size=45]It was also decided, according to the ministry, to allow “the sending of poultry products to central and southern Iraq, as well as the establishment of a special committee to allow poultry project owners to send their products to central and southern Iraq.”[/size]
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