Over million donums to be planted with wheat, barley in Wassit Province

WASSIT / IraqiNews.com: Southern Iraq’s Wassit Province was reported on Sunday to have completed its preparations to plant over one million donums of wheat and barley crops in different agricultural areas of the Province.   “Our Province has completed its preparations to implement the agricultural plan for the next winter season, to cover the planting of one million and 26,000 donums of wheat and barley crops in different parts of the Province,” Wassit’s Agriculture Director, Faiz Jawad told IraqiNews.com news agency.   Jawad said that “the Province’s Agricultural Committee had depended on the same plan of last year for the planted area that covered the planting of 751,000 donums with wheat and 275,000 donums with barley, after supplying the farmers with seeds.”   Noteworthy is that Wassit Province had occupied the first position among all other Iraqi Provinces in the process of marketing wheat and barley crops, that reached 403,000 tons of wheat and 60,000 tons of barley.   Kut, the center of Wassit Province , is 180 km to the southeast of Baghdad .   SKH (IT)