UN launches project contributes to the operation of 200 thousand Iraqis

[ltr]UN launches project contributes to the operation of 200 thousand Iraqis[/ltr]

 Since 12/23/2016 10:21 am (Baghdad time)
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[ltr]Will be able to nearly 200,000 people from Mosul and other parts of Iraq to work and earn income for the first time since the control of the so-called organized Daesh on parts of the region in 2014, thanks to a new project launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to restore the irrigation system for about 250,000 hectares of Farmland.[/ltr]
[ltr]According to a statement of the Organization (FAO) received / balances News / copy of it, it is expected that the water flowing through the channel soon that fed this land that was fertile day and about 30 km west of Mosul, Iraq's third largest city.[/ltr]
[ltr]Through the "cash-for-work program", which is one of the main components of the project, FAO, the organization will provide support for the most vulnerable families who need money to fill their daily needs, including the provision of food, clothing, heating and transportation. Many of them did not get a job earning him paid at least two years ago.[/ltr]
[ltr]The workers within this program to clean up the main channel of the North Island Project irrigation system, dirt, stones and rubble in order to be opened again to feed the small canals in the agricultural land.[/ltr]
[ltr]As the FAO reform pumping station that feeds a system of channels Mosul Dam for the first time the organization is cooperating with a company specialized in mine clearance to clean up precious agricultural areas surrounding the channels of unexploded IEDs so that the farmers of crops and graze their cattle implant safely.[/ltr]
[ltr]This is a project which is currently benefiting more than three thousand people, is essential to the revival of agricultural activities in the region.[/ltr]
[ltr]Commenting on that, said FAO representative in Iraq, Fadhil Al Zoubi: "Over the years, farmers here not able to grow vegetables because armed groups destroyed irrigation canals and polluted region IED," asserting that "enable people to restore their ability to agriculture and trade in this region is important not only for food security, but also to build prosperity and lasting peace in the country. "[/ltr]
[ltr]In the recent past, farmers in the region was exporting Khaddroathm agricultural crops, including wheat and barley to Syria and other countries, and they provide for millions of Iraqis. Now, the country relies on imported fruits and vegetables. "[/ltr]
[ltr]He says one of the project workers and named Ahmed Mohamed, a father of three children and at the age of 23 years: "We collect the debris piles, and then collect all four piles in the com one large bulldozer to come and remove it from the channel."[/ltr]
[ltr]He adds: "My brother owns agricultural land will benefit from this project, it has been cultivated wheat and barley and vegetables in the winter in other chapters but now he can not grow vegetables only when it rained."[/ltr]
[ltr]In the past, the Gezira irrigation was a key source of water used for agriculture, livestock and domestic use.[/ltr]
[ltr]However, the nearly 100 channels smaller in this system were damaged, and blew up bridges, and damaged pumping station operating at less than capacity, which has resulted in an acute shortage of water.[/ltr]
[ltr]However restore more land, it will increase the need for a major effort to rehabilitate the infrastructure so that it can resume agricultural production and the restoration of livelihoods.[/ltr]
[ltr]FAO is seeking to get the salt funding by $ 89 million to strengthen its response to emergencies, including the rehabilitation of the affected agricultural infrastructure, and support farmers and help them to vaccinate their livestock and feed her, and the expansion of the "cash for work" and other generating activities of income.[/ltr]

[ltr]The work carried out by the FAO, in coordination with the Iraqi government, supports returning to areas that have been restored families, and the families of the displaced, the host coming from Syria and refugee communities and are the current funding for the project to reform the island's irrigation system through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Ended 29 / d 24[/ltr]

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