Over 250,000 tons of wheat marketed in Wassit

WASSIT / IraqiNews.com: Over 250,000 tons of wheat have been marketed by peasants and farmers of the agricultural crop for 2010-2011, the Director of Wassit’s Branch of the stated-owned General Company for Grain Trading has stated on Tuesday. “The stores of the General Company for Grain Trading in Kut and Suwaira towns have received 253,000 tons of grain, within the winter season of 2010-2011, whilst an agreement had been reached for marketing of crops of the northern parts of Wassit Province to Baghdad’s Rusafa stores,” Engineer Malik Khalaf told IraqiNews.com news agency. Iraq’s Trade Ministry recently announced that southern Iraq’s Wassit Province leads among the country’s provinces in growing and marketing wheat and barley for the current season. Noteworthy is that the 2009-2010 winter season had witnessed the planting of one million and 26,000 donums of wheat and barley, while 751,000 donums were planted by wheat and 275,000 donums with barley. Kut, the center of Wassit Province, is 180 km to the southeast of Baghdad.   SKH (TI)/SR 628