Agriculture announces expansion into desert lands
Economic 2024/08/12
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The Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday, Sunday, that Iraq has lost about
60% of agricultural lands are irrigated with river water, indicating that the alternatives were through expansion into desert lands.
The official spokesman for the ministry, Mohammed Al-Khuzai, said, “Iraq has lost approximately 60% of its agricultural land with river water due to water scarcity and the harsh climate changes that have hit Iraq, which forced us to reduce the area of our winter agricultural plan for wheat crops to only one and a half million dunams.” He added, “The ministry has worked hard, in light of the challenges it has faced, to find alternatives in light of water scarcity and climate changes by expanding into desert lands by irrigating these lands with sprinklers that irrigate with groundwater.” Al-Khuzai continued by saying that “we were able to cultivate 4 million dunams to compensate for the shortage in lands irrigated by rivers,” noting that “the ministry has succeeded greatly not only in producing wheat, but we have also achieved a surplus of it with a total production of 6 million and 400 thousand tons of wheat.”
Earlier, Iraqi Trade Minister Athir Al-Ghariri announced achieving self-sufficiency in marketing wheat locally, through the use of modern agricultural and irrigation methods and other government measures to support increasing cultivated areas.
It is noteworthy that Iraq is the fifth most affected country by climate change according to the United Nations, and since 2020 it has witnessed a serious escalating water crisis due to the scarcity of rain and the “water war” waged against it by the upstream countries (Turkey, Iran, and Syria), with the crisis reaching its peak in 2023, when the levels of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers fell to unprecedented levels.
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