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09-30-2004, 03:32 AM
Multi-National Forces, in cooperation with Texas A&M Unviersity, Colorado State University (CSU), Kansas State University (KSU) and the World Wide Wheat Company (WWWC) will distribute more than 1,000 pounds of wheat seeds to Iraqi farmers located in the Ninevah Province by October.
The Ninevah Province is considered to be the wheat belt of Iraq, producing 50 percent of the country’s wheat.
Over the past 10 years, this region has not been able to keep up with Iraq’s wheat demand. During the Saddam Hussein regime, farmers were expected to continuously produce wheat. This tactic degraded the soil, leaving few nutrients for the next year’s crop, increasing chances for crop disease and fungus and eventually resulting in fewer yields.
http://www.portaliraq.com/shownews.php?id=529
The Ninevah Province is considered to be the wheat belt of Iraq, producing 50 percent of the country’s wheat.
Over the past 10 years, this region has not been able to keep up with Iraq’s wheat demand. During the Saddam Hussein regime, farmers were expected to continuously produce wheat. This tactic degraded the soil, leaving few nutrients for the next year’s crop, increasing chances for crop disease and fungus and eventually resulting in fewer yields.
http://www.portaliraq.com/shownews.php?id=529