The Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture has increased the Kurdistan Region's share of wheat from 375,000 to 500,000 tons and allow farmers to sell their products in other Iraqi provinces.
Rizgar Hama Khadr, advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) told Kurdsat that In today's meeting with the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture they agreed to increase the Kurdistan Region's share of wheat from 375,000 to 500,000 tons.
Baghdad is the primary customer to wheat produced in the Kurdistan region and many farmers prefer selling their produce to the federal government.
He added that the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture has decided to allow farmers to sell their agricultural products in central and southern Iraqi provinces. The Ministry of Agriculture of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRG) expects this year's wheat production to be more than 1.8 million tons.
If the federal government does not purchase all the wheat from the farmers, the farmers must sell it in the market, the advisor said. The price of a ton of wheat in the market is about 600 to 650 thousand Iraqi Dinars.