date:Jul 19, 2017
The Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources of Kurdistan's Regional Government, Abdul Sattar Majid, reported that the region's total potato production in 2016 reached 243 thousand tonnes and that they expected to export 500 tonnes of potatoes to Russia this year.
Majid said in an interview with Economy News that the Ministry had started considering the importance of potato cultivation back in 2008, when production amounted to just a thousand tonnes a year, noting that in the following years