iraq agricultural exports
Tags: iraq
April 23rd
- Agricultural ministry empowered to export barley @ $125/ton
- first time in more than a decade for Iraq to export barley
- forecasts have climbed 4x this year to exporting 2m tons of barley
- 1.3m tons of barely consumed a year
- should lessen the need for foreign grain imports
- barley production surged from 27k in 2018 to 500k in 2019
- corn farmers produced 400k in 2019
- corn and barley used as animal fodder