New silo ready to store Kurdistan Region wheat
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani on Thursday inaugurated a wheat silo in the Garmiyan administration intended at boosting the ability to store local produce.
“We have given great importance to building silos and warehouses so they take in our farmers' crops,” Barzani said during a ceremony in Kalar district.
The silo will help in providing food security and allow several economic sectors in the Kurdistan Region to advance, the premier added.
The storage facility can hold up to 40,000 tons of wheat.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) launched a Wheat Marketing Project across the Region earlier this year as part of a plan to diversify the economy and decrease its dependence on oil. The project encompasses a large complex of silos and factories and will produce and then market food made with wheat.
It has also invested in building 19 infrastructure projects in the Garmiyan administration, according to Barzani.
Kurdistan’s farmers have struggled to find a market for their wheat in the past. Most rely on the Iraqi government to buy their crops, but Baghdad is not prompt in paying them.
However, the KRG started buying wheat from the farmers in June.
"We want to make sure that the farmers have a safe market to sell their crops,” Sherzad Jaffar, head of Khoshnaw Company's geometrical projects, told Rudaw's Mohammed Sheikh Fatih at the time.
Farmers frequently stage protests when the harvest season approaches, demanding the government buy their wheat.
“We have given great importance to building silos and warehouses so they take in our farmers' crops,” Barzani said during a ceremony in Kalar district.
The silo will help in providing food security and allow several economic sectors in the Kurdistan Region to advance, the premier added.
The storage facility can hold up to 40,000 tons of wheat.
I didn't go to Kalar to campaign, or to make promises, I went to announce this cabinet’s investment of over $100m in agriculture, electricity, roads and services for the resilient people of the area.
— Masrour Barzani (@masrour_barzani) October 7, 2021
Today we announced $11m more to secure a better future for this area -mb. pic.twitter.com/wV5jB2C9Rn
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) launched a Wheat Marketing Project across the Region earlier this year as part of a plan to diversify the economy and decrease its dependence on oil. The project encompasses a large complex of silos and factories and will produce and then market food made with wheat.
It has also invested in building 19 infrastructure projects in the Garmiyan administration, according to Barzani.
Kurdistan’s farmers have struggled to find a market for their wheat in the past. Most rely on the Iraqi government to buy their crops, but Baghdad is not prompt in paying them.
However, the KRG started buying wheat from the farmers in June.
"We want to make sure that the farmers have a safe market to sell their crops,” Sherzad Jaffar, head of Khoshnaw Company's geometrical projects, told Rudaw's Mohammed Sheikh Fatih at the time.
Farmers frequently stage protests when the harvest season approaches, demanding the government buy their wheat.