Investment dates attract frozen funds and revive Iraq's rarest palms

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[size=52]Investment dates attract frozen funds and revive Iraq's rarest palms[/size]

[size=45]In the vicinity of Muqdadiya district, northeast of Diyala, Abu Mujahid Al-Tamimi is trying to complete the transfer of requirements for establishing a model palm farm within the scope of an investment that has begun to take an important space in recent years due to profits, especially with the lifting of export restrictions to foreign markets.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Tamimi said in an interview with (Al-Mada), that "one of 10 people decided to build model palm farms that would attract the rarest Iraqi dates, especially Al-Barhi, for the purpose of exporting it later to Arab and international markets," stressing that "his farm has an area of ​​30 dunums that will produce dates within 3 years." from now on".[/size]
[size=45]Al-Tamimi added that "investment dates are a new title in the agricultural sector that has begun to take up space, and is restarting activity to build model farms that rely mainly on rare and desirable species for the purpose of exporting and recovering production costs within a few years."[/size]
[size=45]As for the head of the Local Union of Agricultural Associations in Diyala, Raad Al-Tamimi, he admitted that “investment dates have increased in the past 16 months by 30%, especially with the good financial revenues for the export of rare types of dates, including the Iraqi Barhi.”[/size]
[size=45]He added, "Investment dates have emerged in 11 agricultural districts in Diyala currently," expecting that "the coming months will witness cultivation of 100-150 dunums within typical farms."[/size]
[size=45]In turn, Muzhar Al-Azzawi, an agricultural engineer, says that “all the model farms for dates relied on the principle of textile cultivation in taking shoots, which is a unique experience that has great and important positives,” stressing that “the farms relied mainly on 30 rare types of Iraqi dates; Because it is the most interactive in the export file abroad, and even the internal demand for it is high compared to the rest of the materials.”[/size]
[size=45]He added that "the investment of dates was not limited to farmers, but even businessmen and the wealthy, and although the farms' areas are not large, but they stimulated many and contributed to fundamental changes in the patterns of Iraqi date palm cultivation and the transfer of experience to several provinces that began to flock to Diyala to transfer offshoots for cultivation."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that "the frozen funds of various segments may be transferred to agricultural investments in the short and medium term, especially, and that it is the most active despite the drought crisis, but the presence of reliance on modern irrigation principles will reduce water wastage by 80%, and facing the repercussions of drought is not impossible."[/size]
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