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Minister of Agriculture: We are dealing with the rise in prices by accelerating import operations
Economical 04/09/2023
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The Minister of Agriculture, Abbas Al-Alaywi, said: The recent rainy waves contributed to increasing the cultivated areas by one million acres. On the other hand, he explained the acceleration of the import process to address the rise in prices in the market.
Al-Alaywi stated, in a press conference, that “this year was rainy and different from previous years, and it caused an increase in grazing areas, which in turn encouraged livestock breeders to go towards these lands for fattening and propagation,” noting that “this affected the prices of meat in The markets coincide with the Ramadan season, in which the prices of meat and other products rise every year.”
He added, "Import is open as it was before and at a higher rate, and the ministry has begun the process of accelerating the import process in order to address the current rise," reassuring that "the current rise will not continue for much and the market will return to normal."
Regarding climate change, Al-Olaywi said: “We have a promising plan for the strategy to combat desertification, which was prepared for the year 2030, and it includes many steps. An initiative was launched by the Prime Minister to plant 5 million trees and palm trees throughout Iraq, and we started a large program with the governorates and supporting ministries in the cultivation of this amount.”
He continued, "We have great work with international organizations on how to address the water shortage through real and better water management, because climate change is not the only problem for Iraq, but there are problems in water management," stressing, "taking great steps through the Ministry of Water Resources and Cooperation." with international institutions.
Regarding the wells, the Minister of Agriculture said: “We have a big problem with the lack of water, and everyone knows the area of the planted plan is about one and a half million dunums, so the problem was addressed by heading towards desert lands, provided that they are not drilled randomly, but there is a specialized ministry, which is the Ministry of Water Resources.” It detects the area in which a well is to be worked in jointly with the Ministry of Agriculture, and the promising areas are identified because some lands contain sulfur areas and some of them are already dry, even if drilling is done at great depths, the amount of water produced is not good.
He pointed out that “all the water that is currently used is according to what is required for the cultivation process, and there is no water used for anything other than the agricultural process, since the product cannot be grown in land that contains sulfuric water, and thus affects the product and also affects the soil.”
He stressed that “the use of modern technologies is an inevitable option and there is no alternative to it, since the quantities of water delivered this season are few.” With modern irrigation devices, represented by pivotal devices, in installments over 10 years without interest, in addition to encouraging import companies to import without paying customs duties and taxes.
He pointed out that "the agricultural season for the current year 2023 is a promising season and it is expected that the crop that was produced this year and will start from 1/5/2023 will reach 4 million tons, which is a quantity of wheat production that we have not reached for a long time," pointing out that “It was the rainy wave that affected the volume of production, after the expected quantity in the plan prepared for this year did not reach 3 million tons.”
And he indicated that “the rainfall encouraged the ministry to increase the cultivated areas by one million dunums, and thus the cultivated area increased and affected the increase in production and its money was allocated,” calling on the farmers to “hand over their products to the Ministry of Commerce after a decision was made in a meeting in the presence of the Prime Minister with the ministries of finance and trade to hand over funds farmers within two weeks after handing over the harvest.
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