Iraq - Kick start for meat industry
A recently established international partnership will focus on developing a “strong and viable beef and lamb feedlot industry” for Iraq, according to project participants. According to a news release...
View ArticleIraq - Swine flu
A woman who made routine visits to a Shiite shrine in southern Iraq has died of swine flu, making it the first death from the deadly virus in the country, a health ministry official said on Sunday....
View ArticleIraq - Fledgeling beef industry
A program being run with the assistance of Texas A&M Univ. hopes to reestablish a viable beef industry in Iraq. The project brings together the Inma Agribusiness Program at A&M, the U.S....
View ArticleIraq - Biofuel plans
raq's prime minister has approved a project by a United Arab Emirates-based company to make biofuel from dates that would otherwise be wasted because they have started to perish
View ArticleIraq - Obtaining water supplies
Iraq is studying offers from three foreign companies on putting together a strategic 30-year plan for managing its water resources during a lingering and damaging drought, the water resources ministry...
View ArticleIraq - The Australian wheat scandal
The Australian corporate regulator will not be forced to give AWB piles of confidential information garnered during its investigation into the Iraq oil-for-food kickbacks scandal after an appeals...
View ArticleIraq - Australian Supreme Court hears litany of government corruption
AWB apparently paid millions of dollars in bogus inland transport fees to Iraq even when the Australian grain exporter's wheat shipments were rejected at the port of Um Qasr, according to internal...
View ArticleIraq - US help farmers get started
U.S. Department of Agriculture initiative to help Iraqi farmers implement new technologies and methods in the country.
View ArticleIraq - The Australian wheat scandal
THE corporate regulator's pursuit of former AWB chief executive Andrew Lindberg over the Iraq kickbacks scandal will be adjourned this week as the regulator hurries to issue a second, and possibly...
View ArticleIraq- More dirty linen in Australian court
AWB was "on the horns of a dilemma" after US-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003 because it had prepaid millions of dollars of "bribes" to Saddam Hussein's regime and the prospects of being fully...
View ArticleIraq - Poultry processing helped by US Army engineers
U.S. soldiers used their agriculture and engineering expertise to help bring an idle chicken processing plant near Mahmudiyah back into operation; one that will provide food and jobs, according to...
View ArticleIraq - More on Australian AWB Bribes scandal
THE corporate regulator has launched a fresh wave of legal action against former AWB chief executive, Andrew Lindberg, alleging that for more than two years he misled his fellow directors by failing...
View ArticleIraq - US soldiers aid poultry plant
One has to remember the word of Collin Powell “ If we break it we must fix it”. Having said that it is still nice to see the attempt to win hearts and minds. US Soldiers lent their agriculture and...
View ArticleIraq - Government shopping for grain
An Iraqi buying consortium, made up of poultry producers and feed millers, traveled to the United States last week to review the US grain marketing system as they move forward in modernising their...
View ArticleIraq - Australian bribes scandal told in court
THE man in charge of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's investigation into AWB's secret payment of kickbacks to Iraq has revealed the regulator believes the Cole Inquiry reached...
View ArticleIraq- Help for local farmers
The US 2nd Brigade Combat Team have distributed medical supplies to Iraqi veterinarians in Kirkuk with the aim of supporting agricultural production, which is crucial for the local economy. Captain...
View ArticleIraq - Farming and this years drought
Drought conditions in 2008 and 2009 severely reduced Iraq’s output of food and feed grain crops
View ArticleIraq - Developing a beef industry
A recently established international partnership will focus on developing a “strong and viable beef and lamb feedlot industry” for Iraq, according to project participants. The partnership
View ArticleIraq - Developing fish farming
The USAID Inma Agribusiness Program is revitalizing Iraq's fish industry, providing technical training to farmers to increase economic opportunities while placing traditional food back into the reach...
View ArticleIraq - Building up the poultry trade
Ross customers in Iraq recently participated in a video link-seminar organised by the Ross Middle East Customer Focus Team and Vano Group, Erbil, Iraq, to ensure effective, regular communication and...
View ArticleIraq - The Howard government guilty of bribing Saddam
Australian wheat exporter AWB has admitted that it knew the fees it was paying to a Jordanian transport company were being passed on to Saddam Hussein's regime
View ArticleIraq - The Australian Wheat Board scandal
Now that AWB has, as its chairman said, ''put behind it'' the Iraq kickbacks scandal by settling for $39.5 million a shareholder class action, you might ask whatever happened to Norman Davidson Kelly
View ArticleIraq - The meat insdustry
Iraq post-war figues show: In US$ 9 billion GCC food market size, Iraq’s halal-food imports estimate at US$ 2.5 billion for its 30 million population “With the political stability and opening up of...
View ArticleIraq - Ross Poultry
The Ross distributor in Iraq, Rasun (part of the Vano Group), recently organised a successful Feed Formulation Training Course in association with the Iraq Poultry Producers Association (IPPA) and the...
View ArticleIraq - The poultry industry
Politics is never far away in the Australian grains industry, and the big argument at the moment is who'll be the public face of grain growers at a national and international level. While state...
View ArticleIraq - Iraqi entrepreneurs build chicken business
Hussein and Dr. Wejdi Alshammary, 2 average brothers and businessmen making a living in Diyala province, Iraq, have created the Iraq Grand Parent Company, which is leading the way for the poultry...
View ArticleIraq - Iraqi entrepreneurs build chicken business
Hussein and Dr. Wejdi Alshammary, two brothers and businessmen making a living in Diyala province, Iraq have created the Iraq Grand Parent Company, which is leading the way for the poultry industry in...
View ArticleIraq - Farm experts train in Australia
Twenty senior extension specialists with the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture this week completed an advanced program in agricultural training in South Australia. Rural Solutions SA provided the...
View ArticleIraq - The poultry industry
Iraq’s poultry industry continues grow amid an improved overall economic environment, increased feed availability, and a lower level of violence over the past two years. A drop in poultry imports has...
View ArticleIraq - VDZ trading rebuilding the Iraqi food industry
Taking part in the Iraq rebuilding program, VDZ trading is supplying two complete slaughter houses for cattle and sheep to the cities of Karbala and Al Ramadi. Both slaughter houses will be identical...
View ArticleIraq - Rasun Invests in the future with Ross
Rasun, part of the Vano Group, one of Iraq’s premier agriculture companies and the Ross GP distributor for Iraq, has announced an agreement to extend its Grandparent (GP) production base in order to...
View ArticleIraq - 20,000 tons of Australian wheat arrives
Iraq took delivery of more than 200,000 metric tons of wheat from Australia, Hassan Ismail Ibrahim, director general of the country’s Grain Board, said.
View ArticleIraq - 25,000 hens culled
As many as 21,590 hens infected with bird flu were culled at a poultry farm in Chuadanga.
View ArticleIraq - You break it you fix it, Colin Powell
Powell The plight of Iraqi Christians since the fall of Saddam Hussein has been agonizingly personal for Aram Butrus Matti.
View ArticleIraq - Could War Flare Again Between Iraq and Kuwait?
According to Iraqi Council of Representatives Oil and Energy Committee member Furat al-Sharei, the 10 oil fields that spread across the Iraqi-Kuwaiti frontier are still waiting to have a line drawn...
View ArticleIraq - An Army of Soldiers to be Replaced by an Army of Businessmen
After nearly nine years, all US Forces are mandated to withdraw from Iraqi territory by 31 December 2011 under the terms of a bilateral agreement signed in 2008. Now the job facing the war-torn...
View ArticleIraq - Building the poultry industry
The growing poultry market in Iraq has seen increasing demand for Ross products in the country as Aviagen invests in service, product quality and technical, veterinary and nutritional support.
View ArticleIraq - Seminar Confirms Ross Commitment in Iraq
The growing poultry market in Iraq has seen increasing demand for Ross products in the country as Aviagen invests in service, product quality and technical, veterinary and nutritional support.
View ArticleIraq - Ross & Rasun Tech Teams Connect Customers in Iraq
Ross customers in Iraq were once again, within a few months, given two further opportunities to connect with the Rasun and Aviagen Technical Support teams.
View ArticleIraq - Oil & Politics - The Real Situation in Iraq
A delegation from the International Energy Agency spent two days in Baghdad speaking with high-ranking officials in preparation for an end-of-year report on the country's oil sector. By some...
View ArticleIraq - Iraqi Poultry Producers Flock to Vano Seminar
Aviagen and Vano group recently held their first national Iraq poultry seminar. It was attended by over 80 senior mangers, owners, veterinarian’s poultry producers from all parts of Iraq.
View ArticleIraq - The Making of Kurdistan: Oil, Investment and a Turkish Gamble
As tensions rise among Iraqi Kurds in the country's north, Sunnis in the south and the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad over the distribution of natural resources, Turkey is setting its sights on an...
View ArticleIraq - Poultry imports
The Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq has postponed a law, which requires several certificates regarding poultry product and egg imports, Turkey’s Economy Minister Çağlayan said.
View ArticleIraq - Basrah Food Expo
Elan Expo have been organising international exhibitions on the sectors of construction, food, textile, electric-electronic, packaging, mechanics, franchising, metal etc. in many countries since 1997.
View ArticleIraq - Blame George W Bush for this one
An Advent of light and shadow for Iraq's Christians, who are celebrating the reopening of the cathedral of Baghdad but at the same time subjected to new - and heavy - threats from a radical Shiite...
View ArticleIraq - There are no new Mosques at ground zero
Patriarch Louis Sako of the Chaldean Church said there are only 57 churches left in Iraq compared to 300 churches in 2003, and those that remain continue to be targeted.
View ArticleIraq - Problems for the farming sector
As temperatures in Southern Iraq approached 52 degrees Celsius (126°F) last July, Habib Salman, a 52-year-old farmer in the Al-Islah township, shot himself in the head, leaving behind an eleven-member...
View ArticleIraq - Balancing Geological Potential and Political Risk: Interview with...
From Kurdistan to Somaliland, for independent oil companies, getting your hands on new exploration acreage where both technical risk and political risk are low is impossible. Exploring for oil and gas...
View ArticleIraq - Violence Threatens to Thwart Iraqi Oil Resurgence
A wave of violence has swept parts of Iraq at the start of 2014 as the central government fights back against Al-Qaeda aligned militants in Anbar Province. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...
View ArticleIraq - Iraqi Government Threatens Action Against Kurds as Oil Exports Set to...
Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs firmly stated the central government will take action, "including fiscal measures," if Kurdistan begins exporting oil without coming to an agreement...
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