Agricultural, industrial products fair in Arbil next month

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: Arbil will host a fair of agricultural and industrial products next March 2, with the participation of a number of Iraqi ministries and hundreds of local companies. “Federal ministries of industry and agriculture and the Kurdish ministries of agriculture and industry as well as the federation of chambers of commerce in Kurdistan will take part in the five-day fair,” Aziz Abdo, a general director of the Kurdish trade ministry, told IraqiNews.com news agency. “A total of 249 Iraqi companies will participate in the fair.” he added. Arbil, also written Erbil or Irbil, is believed to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited in the world and is one of the largest cities in Iraq. The city lies eighty kilometers (fifty miles) east of Mosul. In 2005, its estimated population was 990,000 inhabitants. The city is the capital of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region and the Kurdistan Regional Government Kurdistan RegionG). It hosts the headquarters of the Kurdistan region ministers and parliament. SH (S) 1