date:Aug 08, 2018
On Saturday (August 4), the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture instructed the authorities to allow the importation of some crops in response to disappointing domestic production.
'The importation of tomatoes, potatoes, melons, and watermelon crops has been opened in order to make them available at low prices,' Undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture Mahdi Mahdi al-Qaisi said in a press release.
He explained that 'observations made by the monitoring teams of the Ministry and by the directorate