Wheat, barley harvest begins in Karbala

KARBALA / IraqiNews.com: The harvest operation of wheat and barley crops started on Tuesday in Karbala on 33,000 donums, according to a local director of the agriculture department. “The harvest started in the most famous regions with wheat and barley; al-Khayrat and al-Jadwal al-Gharbi districts, east of Karbala, where farmers started to harvest 15,500 donums of barley and 17,524 of wheat,” Engineer Razaq al-Taei told IraqiNews.com news agency. He expected an increase in production by 20% this year compared with previous years because of the rainfall. Karbala is 110 km southwest of Baghdad. SH (P) 1