Strategic Plan to Support Agricultural Crop Production

In a step to reduce their import from abroad
Baghdad / Taha Hussein
The Ministry of Agriculture has prepared a strategic plan to support the production of crops by encouraging farmers and farmers to increase the rate of productivity of the dunum, which contributes to the efforts to promote the sector, while stressing the importance of taking the private sector role in the development of the agricultural economy of the country.
The official spokesman of the ministry Hamid Nayef said in a statement to «morning»: that the ministry has important directions to support the local product as the basis in the development of the sector by protecting it from external imports, which drowns local markets at the time of peak availability, which contributes to lower prices for the sale of crops and low returns The financial income of the peasant and consequently refrain from planting agricultural products for the low economic returns.
He pointed out that the Ministry of Agriculture is not the only body responsible for protecting the local product, as it is submitting a letter to the Ministry of Commerce, in which it does not give import permission to the agricultural products available to trade to inform border ports not to allow these products to enter the country. Al-Nayef pointed out that the ministry coordinated with all relevant authorities to prevent the importation of the product during its time, noting that the entry of the importer is through illegal border ports, noting that the protection of the local product is the establishment of transformer plants, such as canned foods, tomato paste and jams, jams and dates, Refrigeration stores for storage of surplus agricultural produce at the time of availability.
For his part, agricultural expert Eng. Nasser Abdul Amir pointed out to the importance of the private sector in its role in developing the economy and following the latest methods of agriculture in the world which will allow Iraq within a short period to enter the agricultural production sector in both animal and plant Global export. He pointed out that the process of privatization and full dependence on its capabilities without the intervention of the state, should be a cornerstone of the agenda of the government, explaining that the preparation of the mentality of the Iraqi farmer to adopt modern means of work and the formation of special associations to develop their work on the basis of taking market economics and requirements The free trade introduced by Iraq for the first time is a challenge for the Ministry of Agriculture, which started with real steps and adopted the rework of their work and set priorities especially for the agricultural areas and all governorates. He praised the efforts of the Ministry of Agriculture, which said it has doubled its efforts to adopt agricultural research. Adfh for the advancement of the sector in the country and overcome the problems caused by the long years of deliberate neglect of the system buried.

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