***Of Agriculture announces the approval of electricity to supply farmers with 12 hours a day 02/12/2011 09:30

Baghdad, 2 December for the first / December (Rn) - The Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture, Friday it Asthsalt the approval of the Ministry of Electricity to provide farmers with 12-hour day in the agricultural seasons for the purpose of raising the level of Iraq's production of wheat and barley grain.

The Deputy Minister Mehdi ligature Qaisi told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that "the Ministry of Electricity and agreed to provide farmers with 12 hours a day for the purpose of irrigation of agricultural land and raise Iraq's production of wheat and barley during the next planting season."

He added that "the Ministry of Agriculture formed a higher committee with the Ministry of Electricity to ensure the delivery of 12 hours per day of electricity to farmers and farmers in order to reach self-sufficiency."

And that Iraq now produces about two million tons of wheat crop, which is "not enough access to food security because it requires the production of 5 million tons of wheat a year."

And announced in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture earlier that Iraq will achieve food security in accordance with the program ends in 015.

Known global food security that "if there is no threat to people in their lives, or their property, and security Algdaúa is a situation that does not prevent the one between the food, and a people, or in other words, is the ability of a country to produce most of its food. "


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Thanks JJONESMX! I do believe that oil is going to be the sugar daddy but the importance of agriculture is incredibly understated. This geographical region is not famous for its massive crops to say the least... but because of political strife and chaos, competing with Egypt is going to be a lot easier now and that puts Iraq in a wonderful position to actually become (long range goal) a major food exporter! Take away the extreme costs associated with delivery and the middle man (middle countries in this case!) and that spells huge price reductions in life staples... that means there is more money to spend on other things. I did get a kick out of the process though... increasing farmer's available hours with electricity is a unique way to increase production! I would actually say the added electrical hours benefits food processors and distributors much more than the actual producers. Hopefully I am wrong and this is exactly what the farmers need.

Thank you.