Updates

I. Key Messages On 3 August, Ministry of Agriculture began an investigation to uncover the cause for mass fish deaths in Al Dimaj marsh in Diwaniah Governorate, with initial results suggesting the...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over the six-month period analyzed in this report, Iraq experienced significant turmoil. In addition to the effects of the pandemic, with cases overall on the rise in Iraq – now in...

I. Key Messages COVID-19 cases have been on the rise again in Iraq, which has spurred the government to curtail movement between governorates and decrease government employee worktime. Even though...

I. Key Messages While the price of oil has increased as global oil markets recover, still some delays in payments owed to wheat and barley farmers who marketed their production to the government. The...

I. Key Messages Due to the economic crisis, the government has been struggling with distributing payments to farmers who have marketed their production (wheat, barley, corn) to government silos and...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In Iraq, COVID-19 cases continue to rise and at this writing, the country is experiencing another wave of new infections. The twin shocks of the pandemic on the non-oil economy...

I. Key Messages As part of its economic reforms under the White Paper, the government of Iraq (GoI) through the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) has embarked on major economic reforms in the agri-food...

I. Key Messages The devaluation of the Iraqi Dinar resulted in price increases in locally produced and imported food products. Sharp increases were observed in the price of basic food commodities...

I. Key Messages WFP’s mobile Vulnerability Analysis and Monitoring system (mVAM) data collected on 15th of November estimated that around 3.0 million people in Iraq were with insufficient food...

I. Key Messages While under immense fiscal stress, the Government of Iraq (GoI) is prioritizing the subsidy of the upstream of the wheat and barley value chain through the continued 70% subsidy of...

Key Messages With fiscal pressure mounting, GOI has moved part of the unused budget from the Ministry of Trade to the Ministry of Agriculture in order to finance the subsidy of seeds and inputs for...

I. Key Messages The Ministry of Agriculture has assisted Iraqi farmers using import bans to protect their production from competition as well as supported Iraq’s farmers and traders by exporting this...

I. Key Messages The government has started repaying farmers for their cereal crops in governorates affected by the Daesh incursion, which were marketed to government silos in the period of 2014-15...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases continued to rise in Iraq; as of 31 August, there were 231,177 reported cases, a caseload that is almost five times that of 30 June, with 6,959...

Key Messages The Ministry of Agriculture announced receipt of 450,000 tons of wheat seeds though government-owned companies for the 2020/21 season. Tomato and potato prices continued to fluctuate,...

I. Key Messages The Ministries of Agriculture and Trade announced the end of the 2020 wheat marketing season, with an estimated 5.1 million tons of wheat now stored in the government silos. On 17...

I. Key Messages The Ministry of Trade announced an USD 212.3 million allocation to pay wheat farmers’ dues, compensating farmers for product marketed at government silos. The Ministry of Agriculture...

I. Key Messages State-run food processing plants will open in Kurdistan in an effort to stabilize horticultural prices, particularly tomatoes. The nationwide poverty rate is anticipated to increase...

I. Key Messages By July 4th, the government received 4.3 million tons of wheat at collection centers nationwide. The Plant Protection Directorate (PPD) is prioritizing con-trol campaigns against...

I. Key Messages As of June 28th, government silos received approximately four million tons of wheat nationwide, of which 90% was first grade quality. The Veterinary Directorate announced free...