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KURDISTAN | FOOD & AGRICULTURE SECTOR
Topic Started: Dec 9 12, 2:24 (69,505 Views)
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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Italy to open olive oil factory in Kurdistan, train farmers

By Rava Abdullah

Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region - Italy will train Kurdish farmers working in olive groves and open a plant in Kurdistan to make olive oil, local farming officials told Rudaw.

Samir Ismael, an agricultural official in Kurdistan, told Rudaw that “the Italian government provided 789,000 euros for this project,” adding that the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) will monitor the process.

According to Iraqi government data in 2008, there are 169,400 olive trees in the Kurdistan region, but most are used for purposes other than producing olives for consumption.

Since the release of that data, Kurdish officials have imported more than 1.7 million olive trees from Syria, Turkey, Italy and Spain, providing an opportunity to 800 new Kurdish farmers to enter the farming sector to grow olives.

“According to the agreement the Italian team will establish the factory in the Kurdistan region in the next 90 days,” Ismael said, adding that experts from the company will remain until the company begins production of olive oil.

He explained that the factory will only to produce olive oil in the first phase, and that more factories will be needed to produce other commodities, including soap.

The factory will be managed by Kurdish olive grove owners, in an agreement with the Kurdish government.

Hashim Kamal, one of the land owners who will work with the factory, said, “We will run the factory with CIHEAM organization.”

After the Islamic State group took control of the Bashik olive factory, the Kurdistan region has only one factory, Mala Umara, for producing olive oil.

The new olive oil factory will be established in the Khabat neighborhood of Hewlêr. Most of the olive trees in Kurdistan region are in Hewlêr and Duhok provinces.

http://rudaw.net/mobile/english/business/04022016
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Kurdistan to introduce advanced irrigation system to boost wheat crop

Farmers in Kirkuk. Photo: kirkuknow.com
Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region—The Kurdish ministry of agriculture has signed a deal with the UAE-based Aljanani firm to purchase advanced irrigation equipment that are planned to help Kurdish agriculture increase its production.

Authorities say the new irrigation system will reduce the waste of water by nearly 80 percent while at the same time considerably increase the arable land.

The Kurdistan region has over 6 million dunam (every dunam is equivalent to some 2500 square meters) of arable land but only a quarter of that land has been used for agriculture primarily due to the flawed irrigation technics.

The new system will particularly enhance the wheat production in the region which the government plans to invest in heavily.

According to the ministry of agriculture, the area of land harvested for wheat has increased by nearly 80 percent in the last decade with Hewlêr province enjoying the greatest agricultural growth.

Wheat growers in 2015 earned a record crop, boosting production 18 percent from 2014, and earned praise from government officials who said the yield was unprecedented in quality and abundance.

With the new irrigation equipment, it is planned to almost quadruple the wheat production in some areas, the ministry says.

“A farmer who produces 300 kilograms of wheat will make between 1000 and 1200 kilograms from the same land using the new technics,” says manager of the agricultural equipment in the ministry, Hasan Hussein.

Hussein said the new equipment will be placed high above the ground and produce rain-like showers as irrigation.

The three dams in Dukan, Darbandikhan and Dohuk have traditionally supplied the region with tap water. In late 2000, authorities completed a major water station called Ifraz, which with its capacity of 25,000 cubic meters per hour was supposed to end the shortage in the capital.

With the new irrigation system, authorities hope more quantities of water are saved and used to face the growing shortage of tap water in a region with an increasing population.

http://rudaw.net/mobile/english/kurdistan/160420163
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Czech tractor company Zito Antar wants to establish its factory branch in SK

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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Agricultural products increase in Kurdistan

Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources announced that local agricultural products have increased despite the lack of funding to the agriculture sector.

During the Salahaddin University Forum last week, Abdulstar Majid, Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources, told Kurdistan24, “Although it has been two years [and] the ministry has not received any budget, the agricultural products have increased."

According to Majid, the ministry is contributing to the revenue of the Kurdistan Region due to the implementation of the protection of local products policy.

The Ministry of Agriculture contributes 10 percent to Kurdistan’s national budget, and if the KRG provides more support and funding this rate will increase to 30 percent of contribution in the revenues for the government, Majid added.

Majid said that the Kurdistan Region is now exporting only three products which are potatoes, apples and wheat, stating that agriculture could alleviate the financial crisis the KRG is facing if more funds were provided.

Anwar Omer, the spokesperson of the KRG Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, told Kurdistan24 in late April that the Region “used to have 1.7 million hectares [of agriculture], but now we have 3.1 million.”

According to Omer, crop production is also expected to increase to nearly one million ton. Thus, Kurdistan will be self-sufficient because the Region only needs 600,000 tons of products.

Reporting by Baxtiyar Goran
Editing by Karzan Sulaivany


http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/fa6ac98b-e9a3-4add-b070-bf43314f5380/Agricultural-products-increase-in-Kurdistan-
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Biggest fish project in SK halted only 20% completed

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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Producing Wheat

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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Vertical farms sprouting all over the world
By Paul Marks


URBAN warehouses, derelict buildings and high-rises are the last places you’d expect to find the seeds of a green revolution. But from Singapore to Scranton, Pennsylvania, “vertical farms” are promising a new, environmentally friendly way to feed the rapidly swelling populations of cities worldwide.

In March, the world’s largest vertical farm is set to open up shop in Scranton. Built by Green Spirit Farms (GSF) of New Buffalo, Michigan, it will only be a single storey covering 3.25 hectares, but with racks stacked six high it will house 17 million plants. And it is just one of a growing number.

Vertical farms aim to avoid the problems inherent in growing food crops in drought-and-disease-prone fields many hundreds of kilometres from the population centres in which they will be consumed. Instead, Dickson Despommier – an ecologist at Columbia University in New York City who has championed vertical farms since 1999 – suggests that food should be grown year-round in high-rise urban buildings, reducing the need for the carbon-emitting transport of fruit and vegetables.

The plant racks in a vertical farm can be fed nutrients by water-conserving, soil-free hydroponic systems and lit by LEDs that mimic sunlight. And they need not be difficult to manage: control software can choreograph rotating racks of plants so each gets the same amount of light, and direct water pumps to ensure nutrients are evenly distributed.

The whole apparatus can be monitored from a farmer’s smartphone (see “Farming from afar“), says GSF’s R&D manager, Daniel Kluko. He says the new farm in Scranton will grow 14 lettuce crops per year, as well as spinach, kale, tomatoes, peppers, basil and strawberries. Its output will be almost 10 times greater than the firm’s first vertical farm, which opened in New Buffalo in 2011.

Proponents see vertical farming as a way to feed a global population that is urbanising fast: 86 per cent of the people in the developed world will live in cities by 2050, the United Nations predicts. It could make food supplies more secure as well, because production can continue even when extreme weather strikes. And as long as farmers are careful to protect their indoor “fields” from pests, vertical farming needs no herbicides or insecticides. They also conserve water far better than earthbound farming.

“If farmers protect their indoor ‘fields’ from pests, vertical farming needs no herbicides or insecticides”
GSF’s first farm was inspired by the long-term drought that has been afflicting many parts of the US. “Water is a big issue,” says Kluko. “We have designed our vertical farms to recycle it, and they use 98 per cent less water per item of produce than traditional farming.” That’s done in part by scavenging water from the grow room’s atmosphere with a dehumidifier. It’s a machine with a dual role, as excess humidity can lead to problems like leaf mould.

Most vertical farms rely on natural light as much as possible. In sunny, near-equatorial Singapore, entrepreneur Jack Ng’s SkyGreens vertical farm needs no artificial lighting to promote growth. Instead, his four-storey glass-sided farm contains mobile racks of Chinese cabbage and lettuce that rotate slowly up to the sunnier heights of the building on a low-power elevator.

Conversely, in Japan, Kyoto-based Nuvege (pronounced “new veggie”) runs a windowless indoor farm. In a cavernous facility reminiscent of an aircraft hangar, Nuvege’s LED lighting is tuned to two types of chlorophyll, one preferring red light and the other blue. “Tuned to these spectra, you can grow a plant no matter where it is,” Despommier notes. Indeed, Nuvege produces 6 million lettuces a year in this way, for customers including Subway and Disneyland Tokyo.

In such arrangements, the electricity bills can add up quickly. Today’s LEDs are only about 28 per cent efficient, which keeps the cost of produce high and prevents vertical farms from competing in regions where cheap vegetables are abundant. However, lighting engineers at Philips in the Netherlands have demonstrated LEDs with 68 per cent efficiency, which could dramatically cut costs.

And the latest research shows that plants do not need always-on artificial sunlight, Despommier says: they can experience light that varies in intensity through the day – moving from an artificial dawn through to noon and dusk. Mimicking these changes will save energy too. Such tricks already play a small part at GSF: infrared LEDs mimic 5 minutes of a fading sunset at the end of each day. “It puts peppers and tomatoes into their flowering period quicker,” says Kluko.

Advances in vertical farms could trickle through from other sources, too. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is using an 18-storey vertical farm in College Station, Texas, to produce genetically modified plants that make proteins useful in vaccines. Adversity also plays its part: the tsunami-sparked nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011 is leading to innovation in vertical farming because much of the region’s irradiated farmland can no longer be used.

“Fukushima has had a riveting effect on this field,” says Despommier. “People were taking their food to the Geiger counter before the checkout counter.”
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This supermarket online sells KURDISH produce in Suli

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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Hawler gets its first modern fresh fruit market, good to see what some Money from the oil gone here...
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Potato farming increases in Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region produces twice the volume of potatoes needed for domestic consumption. Photo: Rudaw
Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region – The Kurdish Ministry of Agriculture predicts that farmers will plant more than 15,000 tons of seed potatoes in mid-February, increasing the amount of potatoes produced locally.

The humble but nutritious potato is considered one of the most common crops in the world, following wheat, rice, and sweet corn. The Kurdistan Region has paid more attention to planting potatoes over the past 10 years. Over the past 8 years, potato products increased from 12,000 tons to 213,356 tons.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, 675 farmers cultivate tens of thousands of acres of land to grow potatoes in the Kurdistan Region. The private sector has also been helpful in developing this product by bringing potato seeds from abroad, especially from the Netherlands.

The Dutch Agroplant company has opened a branch in the Kurdistan Region due to increasing demand for its potato seeds. In addition to exporting its seeds to the region, this company also invites Kurdish farmers to the Netherlands annually to introduce them to the latest technology in the field of agriculture and show them potato fields there.

“Growing potatoes in the Kurdistan Region is on the rise. Potato products are increasing year by year. We bring the latest seeds on demand from farmers,” the Agroplant Company’s General Manager Hussein Arif told Rudaw.

His company imported 1,300 tons of potato seeds to Kurdistan last year. It has now doubled this amount for the spring season alone.

“Last year, we imported a new type of potato seeds known as 'the actress.' They had good products. They withstand being under soil for longer. This quality was useful to farmers, enabling them to keep their products under the earth until prices go up. Hence, we have doubled the import of these seeds this year on demand from farmers,” Arif said.

Figures from the agriculture ministry reveal that potato products grown in the Kurdistan Region reached 213,356 tons. This is twice the amount that the region needs to meet its potato demands in the market. The surplus is exported to Iraqi cities.

“Potato products are increasing gradually in the Kurdistan Region. However, farmers have difficulties selling their products during the harvest, and they cannot keep their products until a later time due to not having enough stores to keep them. This is also because the government levies taxes on imports only during the harvest. They open the borders later,” Arif explained.

“It’s been a few years, we have reached self-sufficiency in our potato products. Our main problem is that the consumption of potatoes is lowest during the harvest of this product. That is why its price goes down during this time. Farmers export the surplus to Iraqi cities due to not having sufficient stores and not being able to sell all their products in Kurdistan,” said Samir Ismail, the ministry of agriculture’s supervisor of the potato project.

Kurdistan-Holland (KH) is the main representative of the Dutch HZPC Company in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq. It helps the ministry of agriculture and local farmers by bringing Dutch seeds to the region. This company has imported 11,000 tons from six different types of potato seeds for the spring planting season on demand from farmers.

“In the Kurdistan Region, potato products are increasing annually. But the entire product cannot be sold here and there aren’t enough stores to keep them. But we are prepared to build small stores for farmers near their fields, providing that the ministry of agriculture allows us and can assure us that farmers will pay back the cost of these stores over time,” Saadi Asaad, general manager of KH said, adding, “we can build these stores in a way that local potato products can last for 10 months without having to import them from abroad.”

“Despite the financial crisis and in a bid to further develop potato growth, we have decided to purchase 3,500 tons of potato seeds from companies and distribute them to farmers,” Ismail detailed.

http://www.rudaw.net/mobile/english/kurdistan/080220174
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Sulaimani grain Silo was DEMOLISHED as a new one in Halabja city was built...

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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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