Experiment to produce new forage in Thi-Qar farms

THI-QAR / IraqiNews.com: A new experiment on Saturday was launched to farm new kinds of highly productive forage at Thi-Qar‘s experimental farms, in the northeast of the province, said an official source from Thi-Qar‘s agricultural directorate. “The experiment was launched at the farms of al-Batihaa district, 45 km northeast of Nassiriya,” Mahdi al-Zargani told IraqiNews.com. “The origin of seeds being used is Australia,” he said. Nassirya, capital city of Thi-Qar province, lies 380 km south of Baghdad. MH (P)/SR 1