Foreign companies invited to rehabilitate farmlands

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The higher agricultural initiative committee assigned the agriculture ministry to provide statistics for arable lands in Iraq so as to give them out to farmers and offer them as investment opportunities by inviting foreign companies to rehabilitate them. “This came during the committee’s eighth meeting,” according to a committee release as received by IraqiNews.com news agency. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had launched an initiative in July 2007 to improve the status of agriculture in Iraq. MH (P)/AmR 1