Iraq declares self-sufficiency cultivating vegetables during next 5 years ...

April 1, 2010

Prevent the import of seven varieties of vegetables

بغداد ـ مصطفى مجيد Baghdad Mustafa Majid

Proceed with the Ministry of Agriculture as of today to prevent the introduction of seven varieties of vegetables imported into the country, and praised the experience of greenhouses in the cultivated locally iddah basis for the success the country's bid to declare the self-sufficiency of vegetables during the next five years.

Said Undersecretary Dr. Subhi Jumaili the "morning", said the ministry had issued a decree that asked the Directorate of border points of the Ministry of the Interior, preventing the introduction of tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, onions, beans, the trees, and okra to the country, through the border gates official, as of today, the first of April until further notice, adding that the move was to be just a slide of farmers and protect their products and crops of the process of flooding local markets with agricultural products, competition and lower prices, which has caused much damage to the agricultural economy of the country, peasants and farmers alike over the past six years.

For his part, Undersecretary Technical Dr. Mahdi Qaisi the "morning": that the development project growing vegetables protected adopted by the ministry beginning in 2007, shares changing the thinking of the peasants towards the covered ones, to contribute to its increased receipts at low prices, due to the support given to them in various magazines through the initiative launched by the government, agricultural, which have an active role in the reactivation of the agricultural sector through specialized funds lent.

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