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Iraq, Baghdad | The land of palm trees imports dates
Dates are the most typical fruits in the country yet it is still being imported by the Iraqi government.
published: 26 Jun 2016 -
Rooftop greenhouse takes organic to new heights
VIDEO: It boasts tomatoes, cucumbers, lemons and other organic edibles, but the commercial garden that has sprung up in Montreal is like no other -- since it's located up in the air. The greenhouse sit on the rooftop of a massive office building, and offers a model of farming that takes "green" architecture to a new level. Duration: 02:07
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From rice to rags in heart of Iraq's parched breadbasket
It was once called the Fertile Crescent. The Najaf area south of Baghdad used to feed most of Iraq but this year many farmers didn't even bother to cultivate their fields. Drought has brought water levels to dangerously low levels and with no irrigation, the fields are too parched to plough. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report.
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Spring Harvests for Iraqi Farmers
published: 12 Apr 2009 -
Dates rise from the ashes of Iraq violence
(27 Sep 2011) AP Television Baghdad, September 25, 2011 1. Wide of date-palm farming 2. Various of date trees 3. Exterior of the Agriculture Ministry''''s Date Palm Board 4. Sign reading: (Arabic) ''''''''The Agriculture Ministry''''s Date Palm Board station in Rashdiya district'''''''' 5. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Kamil Mikhlif al-Dulaimi, head of the Agriculture Ministry''''s Date Palm Board: "Bombing is one of the most important factors that caused huge damage to these orchards. The drought has also had a great impact on date farming despite the fact the river is near by. But water pumps are unable to operate because of outages of electricity. All these factors have negatively affected the orchards.'''''''' 6. Mid of date trees 7. Mid exterior of the Iraqi State Company for...
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China news:prospects remain bleak for organic farms
China news:prospects remain bleak for organic farms
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Iraq pays overdue wheat bill from 1980s
The Iraqi Government is finally paying a bill worth hundreds of millions of dollars owed to Australian wheat farmers in the 1980s due to UN trade sanctions.
published: 04 Apr 2012 -
12 Killed In Attacks Across Iraq
Police said twelve people were killed and 39 others wounded in separate attacks across Iraq Sunday. Xinhua quoted a police source as saying, five people were killed and 15 injured when two suicide bombers wearing explosive vests tried to break into the Shiite college of Imam Kadhim in Ur district of Baghdad. Police said, In Iraq's Muthanna province, three people were killed and 20 others wounded when two car bombs went off near the provincial capital city of Samawa, some 270 km south of Baghdad. https://in.news.yahoo.com/12-killed-attacks-across-iraq-163615103.html http://www.wochit.com
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Farmers ask government for help with dates industry
(22 Sep 2016) LEAD IN: Farmers are calling on the government to save Iraq's diminished dates industry, which once led the world market. They're asking for loans for farmers and help to combat pests. STORY-LINE: Row upon row of elegant palm trees. After years of wars, sanctions and drought, farmers say it's time to save Iraq's fruit palm industry, which was once at the forefront of the world market. They're especially calling on the government to play a greater role in reviving Iraq's lost golden-age of dates. They want loans for farmers so they can launch new nurseries and buy pesticides. ''Most of the orchards in Iraq have been damaged due to agricultural pests, insects, drought and shortage of electricity. In addition to that, the authorities concerned are no longer able to prov...
published: 17 Nov 2016 -
Nigerian farmers returning from Cameroon sow seeds of hope
A wide area of northern Nigeria is suffering the effects of fighting between Boko Haram and Nigerian armed forces. More than 40,000 people fled to neighbouring Cameroon. By the time they returned, crops and food stocks had been raided. The ICRC responded by distributing seed and fertilizer to more than 3,500 returning farmers, so they could restart their lives. Ref: AV380A
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Micro loan networking site helps farmers make profits
(6 Apr 2009) SHOTLIST Shenxi village, north east Sichuan - March 2009 1. Close of Xu Guiqiong pulling vegetables 2. Wide of Ms. Xu working in the field 3. Tilt up of loan officers walking away from the camera to farmhouse in Shenxi Village 4. Wide of loan officers walking 5. Medium of Ms. Xu and loan officers talking 6. Over the shoulder of Ms. Xu and loan officer, Chen Jin 7. Close of Chen Jin taking notes 8. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Chen Jin, Loan Officer for Association for Rural Development of Yilong County (ARDY): "We will visit the neighbours in the area to get a general feeling about the borrower. For sure, some will speak good and some will speak bad of them. Then we can make our own opinion. Basically, in every village we can find someone who knows everybody." 9. Tilt u...
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Farmers Irrigation
Farmers in areas earmarked for large irrigation projects will also receive training on the maintenance of the projects to cut on costs. This is part of the 8.5 billion shillings set aside for irrigation in this financial year. This is in an effort to stop the country's reliance on rain fed agriculture. And with the recent warning from the meteorological department that there would not be enough rains during the long rains season, the government is keen that farmers are equipped with skills to run and maintain the irrigation projects. Andrew Ochieng reports on the latest government efforts to increase food production.
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Apple farmers losing core business through IS threat
(21 Oct 2015) LEAD IN: Apple farmers in the Northern Kurdish region of Iraq are struggling to harvest their crops due to Turkish airstrikes. Warplanes are attacking on two fronts, one of them targeting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which controls much of the apple farming area. STORY-LINE: Tree branches at an Iraqi apple farm are heavy with fruit. But many are likely to go unpicked. The farm's owner considers the job to be too dangerous. This orchard is in the Northern Kurdish region and in an area controlled by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Turkey has been carrying out airstrikes against the group since July. "It affected us because we cannot go to our farms, we cannot go to our planted gardens up in the mountains, and it affected us because we can not take our livesto...
published: 17 Nov 2016 -
SA may export dates to Iraq
South Australia's Agriculture Minister Michael O'Brien has had talks with the visiting Iraqi ambassador about growing dates in the Riverland for export to the Middle East.
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California Soil Health Partnership
Productive agriculture, Healthy environment, Sustainable future.
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[313] Forcing God on Buddhist Children, GMO Contamination: Farmer v. Farmer & R.I.P. Pete Seeger
Abby Martin Breaks the Set on Pete Seeger's Legacy, Creationist Biology, Protection from GMO Contamination, and the Crypto-Currency of Today LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin EPISODE BREAKDOWN: On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin pays homage to the late folk singer and American activist, Pete Seeger, highlighting his personal achievements and lasting legacy. Abby then remarks on a Louisiana ACLU lawsuit against a high school teacher who told a student to change his Buddhist beliefs to conform to the school's creationist curriculum, or transfer to a school with "more Asians". Abby then speaks with Scott Kinnear, director of the Safe Food Foundation, about the case of Steve Marsh, an Australian organic farmer w...
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New technology farming equipment in the world new compilation, inter row cultivator, new modern agriculture machine, inter row planting machine, amazing . New technology farming equipment in the world new compilation, inter row cultivator, new modern agriculture machine, inter row planting machine, amazing . Please enjoy videos....thanks for watching videos.....please SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS. HeavyEquipmentAccidents #RC #Agriculture #2017 New technology farming equipment in the world new compilation, inter row cultivator, new modern .
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Food safety fears see farming return to high-rise Hong Kong
It's a rural tradition that faded out decades ago as Hong Kong turned into a neon-lit megacity: rice seedlings being dropped into watery paddy fields with gentle plops. But now a new wave of farmers are growing the staple again. Duration: 02:06
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Baghdad Market
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Iraq, Baghdad | The land of palm trees imports dates
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Dates are the most typical fruits in the country yet it is still being imported by the Iraqi government.
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Rooftop greenhouse takes organic to new heights
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VIDEO: It boasts tomatoes, cucumbers, lemons and other organic edibles, but the commercial garden that has sprung up in Montreal is like no other -- since it's located up in the air. The greenhouse sit on the rooftop of a massive office building, and offers a model of farming that takes "green" architecture to a new level. Duration: 02:07
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From rice to rags in heart of Iraq's parched breadbasket
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It was once called the Fertile Crescent. The Najaf area south of Baghdad used to feed most of Iraq but this year many farmers didn't even bother to cultivate their fields. Drought has brought water levels to dangerously low levels and with no irrigation, the fields are too parched to plough. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report.
https://wn.com/From_Rice_To_Rags_In_Heart_Of_Iraq's_Parched_Breadbasket
Iran, agriculture and farming, 1970's. Archive film 93965
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Iran. River and the surrounding land. Crops growing, sunflowers. Farmers working in the fields. A tractor working in a field.
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Spring Harvests for Iraqi Farmers
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Dates rise from the ashes of Iraq violence
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(27 Sep 2011)
AP Television
Baghdad, September 25, 2011
1. Wide of date-palm farming
2. Various of date trees
3. Exterior of the Agriculture Ministry''''s Date Palm Board
4. Sign reading: (Arabic) ''''''''The Agriculture Ministry''''s Date Palm Board station in Rashdiya district''''''''
5. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Kamil Mikhlif al-Dulaimi, head of the Agriculture Ministry''''s Date Palm Board:
"Bombing is one of the most important factors that caused huge damage to these orchards. The drought has also had a great impact on date farming despite the fact the river is near by. But water pumps are unable to operate because of outages of electricity. All these factors have negatively affected the orchards.''''''''
6. Mid of date trees
7. Mid exterior of the Iraqi State Company for manufacturing and marketing dates
8. Sign reading (Arabic) ''''''''The Iraqi State Company for manufacturing and marketing dates''''''''
9. Wide of women canning dates inside the company
10. Close of woman''''s hands canning date
11. Mid of woman putting dates in can
12. Mid of women removing centres using knives
13. Close of woman''''s hands removing centre
14. Mid of man placing dates into box
15. Close of women labelling cans filled with dates
16. Mid of cans being packed for delivery
17. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mohammed Suleiman, Director of the Iraqi State Company for manufacturing and marketing dates:
''''''''Iraq was once the leading date-producing and exporting country. It was first in producing dates and it was the first in the number of date trees. It was also the leading date-exporting country.''''''''
18. Wide of factory production line floor
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Iraq was once the world leader in date production and export.
But years of war, bombing, drought and power shortages have left the industry struggling.
Now the Iraqi government is reinvesting in date farming to help the industry get back to its heydays of the 1950s.
STORYLINE
This date palm farm in Iraq is one of the lucky ones.
Many similar plots have been destroyed by years of war, sanctions and drought.
The date crop has always been important to the Iraqi economy.
During its heyday, in the 1950s and 1960s, Iraq was the world''''s No. 1 date producer and exporter and boasted 32 million date palms, more than any other nation in the world. At that time, Iraq produced about 1 million tons of dates annually, according to the head of the Agriculture Ministry''''s Date Palm Board.
But by 2003, there were only half that number of trees and production fell to 200,000 tons. The southern province of Basra was the worst hit by the slump, with only about a quarter of the 12 million date trees it once had.
Now the new government is taking its own action to revive Iraq''''s lost golden age of dates, supporting farmers with loans and launching nurseries.
It''''s not just an economic issue of getting a bigger slice of a date export market that nets big producers like Iran and Pakistan millions of dollars a year. Being renowned for dates is also a point of pride. Like all Muslims, Iraqis honour the date palm as a blessed plant.
It is mentioned many times in the holy book of Quran which, at one point, states Mary gave birth to Jesus under a palm tree and ate its fruit to ease the pain of childbirth. And the prophet Mohammed stressed the benefits of dates as a medicine for several human diseases.
A date is the traditional way for Muslims around the world to break their daily sunrise to sunset fast during the holy month of Ramadan.
But the important crop has suffered in Iraq.
Kamil Mikhlif al-Dulaimi, head of the Agriculture Ministry''''s Date Palm Board, explains why.
But the mood is now more positive with the government keen to redress this migration.
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China news:prospects remain bleak for organic farms
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China news:prospects remain bleak for organic farms
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Iraq pays overdue wheat bill from 1980s
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The Iraqi Government is finally paying a bill worth hundreds of millions of dollars owed to Australian wheat farmers in the 1980s due to UN trade sanctions.
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12 Killed In Attacks Across Iraq
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Police said twelve people were killed and 39 others wounded in separate attacks across Iraq Sunday. Xinhua quoted a police source as saying, five people were killed and 15 injured when two suicide bombers wearing explosive vests tried to break into the Shiite college of Imam Kadhim in Ur district of Baghdad. Police said, In Iraq's Muthanna province, three people were killed and 20 others wounded when two car bombs went off near the provincial capital city of Samawa, some 270 km south of Baghdad.
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Farmers ask government for help with dates industry
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(22 Sep 2016) LEAD IN:
Farmers are calling on the government to save Iraq's diminished dates industry, which once led the world market.
They're asking for loans for farmers and help to combat pests.
STORY-LINE:
Row upon row of elegant palm trees.
After years of wars, sanctions and drought, farmers say it's time to save Iraq's fruit palm industry, which was once at the forefront of the world market.
They're especially calling on the government to play a greater role in reviving Iraq's lost golden-age of dates.
They want loans for farmers so they can launch new nurseries and buy pesticides.
''Most of the orchards in Iraq have been damaged due to agricultural pests, insects, drought and shortage of electricity. In addition to that, the authorities concerned are no longer able to provide farmers with pesticides," explains farmer Firas al-Lami.
During its heyday, in the 1950s and 1960s, Iraq was the world's biggest date producer and exporter, boasting 32 million date palms.
At that time, Iraq produced about one million tonnes of dates per year, according to official reports.
But by 2003, after the U.S.-led invasion of the country, the number of trees halved and production fell to 200,000 tonnes annually.
The southern province of Basra was worst hit by the slump, having only about a quarter of the 12 million date palms it once had.
Being renowned for dates is also a point of pride.
Iraqis honour the date palm as a blessed plant.
It is mentioned many times in the Quran, which at one point states that Mary gave birth to Jesus under a palm tree and she ate its fruit to ease the pain of childbirth.
And the prophet Mohammed stressed the benefits of dates as a medicine for several human diseases.
A date is the traditional way Muslims around the break their daily sunrise to sunset fast during the holy month of Ramadan.
Iraq is now focussing on the date industry as one of several sectors, including oil, agriculture and infrastructure, it wants to develop.
However the effects of recent conflicts, including the fight against the Islamic State group, are still being keenly felt.
''Due to seizure of the country's western areas, Anbar and Hit by Daesh (Islamic State group), Iraq has lost so many quantities of rare and important kinds of dates," explains date seller, Shihab Malik.
Chronic problems in Iraq, such as lack of water, electricity, fuel, and storage have forced many farmers to abandon cultivation and find other jobs.
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Nigerian farmers returning from Cameroon sow seeds of hope
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- Updated: 09 Dec 2015
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A wide area of northern Nigeria is suffering the effects of fighting between Boko Haram and Nigerian armed forces. More than 40,000 people fled to neighbouring Cameroon. By the time they returned, crops and food stocks had been raided. The ICRC responded by distributing seed and fertilizer to more than 3,500 returning farmers, so they could restart their lives.
Ref: AV380A
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Micro loan networking site helps farmers make profits
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(6 Apr 2009) SHOTLIST
Shenxi village, north east Sichuan - March 2009
1. Close of Xu Guiqiong pulling vegetables
2. Wide of Ms. Xu working in the field
3. Tilt up of loan officers walking away from the camera to farmhouse in Shenxi Village
4. Wide of loan officers walking
5. Medium of Ms. Xu and loan officers talking
6. Over the shoulder of Ms. Xu and loan officer, Chen Jin
7. Close of Chen Jin taking notes
8. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Chen Jin, Loan Officer for Association for Rural Development of Yilong County (ARDY):
"We will visit the neighbours in the area to get a general feeling about the borrower. For sure, some will speak good and some will speak bad of them. Then we can make our own opinion. Basically, in every village we can find someone who knows everybody."
9. Tilt up of Ms. Xu feeding pigs
10. Close of pig eating
11. Medium of Ms. Xu feeding piglets
12. Medium of piglets being fed
13. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Xu Guiqiong, Farmer, Shenxi Village, North East Sichuan:
"Keep investing! The bank interest is so low, nearly zero. But if I invest 10,000 (CNY / $1463 US Dollars) next year, I might double this. The interest is nothing. I have to keep investing in my breeding business."
14. Close of vegetable basket
15. Close of Ms. Xu pulling vegetables
16. Pan of Ms Xu working in the field
Jincheng, north east Sichuan - March 2009
17. Wide of office of Association for Rural Development of Yilong County (ARDY)
18. Close of loan officer at a computer
19. Medium of two loan officers
20. Title down of loan officer at a computer
21. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Li Shibing, Vice General Secretary, Association for Rural Development of Yilong County (ARDY):
"The majority of our funds come from projects of international organisations and government donations. When the farmer pays back a loan, we'll lend it out again, immediately - either to someone else or the same person."
22. Wide of Jincheng town traffic
23. Medium of people walking along street and cars driving by
24. Medium of man selling vegetables on the street
25. Wide of Casey Wilson walking down muddy track
26. Close of Wilson's muddy jeans
27. Medium of Wilson walking away from the camera
28. Close of yellow oilseed
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Casey Wilson, CEO & Co-Founder, Wokai:
"And so we thought that creating a person to person platform, where contributors all over the world saw the end recipient they were helping and saw that person on the other end that really had wonderful ideas for the business they wanted to start but needed some support to actually get going, would be a model that could kind of solve those issues."
30. Close of Wokai website page
UPSOUND (English) Casey Wilson, CEO & Co-Founder, Wokai (not on camera)
"Wokai acts kind of like a Facebook for farmers in rural China. People in rural China who are living on less than a dollar 25 a day."
31. SOUNDBITE (English) Casey Wilson, CEO & C-Founder, Wokai:
"We post their pictures, their stories and their loan requests online and contributors from all over the world can browse their stories and select someone to contribute to."
36. Various of Wokai website page
UPSOUND (English) Casey Wilson, CEO & Co-Founder, Wokai: (not on camera)
"If she's living in the countryside, she'll be using her loan to either do animal husbandry or agriculture."
37. Various of loan officers walking through Shenxi Village
38. Various of a dog and Ms. Xu
39. SOUNDBITE (English) Casey Wilson, CEO & Co-Founder, Wokai:
"It's hard as a new non-profit to actually get people to believe in us enough and kind of the future of our organisation enough to actually make large donations to support our existence."
40. Wide of Ms. Xu in vegetable field
41. Close of vegetables
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Farmers Irrigation
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Farmers in areas earmarked for large irrigation projects will also receive training on the maintenance of the projects to cut on costs. This is part of the 8.5 billion shillings set aside for irrigation in this financial year. This is in an effort to stop the country's reliance on rain fed agriculture. And with the recent warning from the meteorological department that there would not be enough rains during the long rains season, the government is keen that farmers are equipped with skills to run and maintain the irrigation projects. Andrew Ochieng reports on the latest government efforts to increase food production.
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Blann Bazar: Striving to be the first brand in Iraq
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- Updated: 21 Nov 2012
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Learn more about how USAID-Inma is helping to support free enterprise in Iraq at http://Inma-Iraq.com
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Spring in Kadoorie Farm
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Apple farmers losing core business through IS threat
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(21 Oct 2015) LEAD IN:
Apple farmers in the Northern Kurdish region of Iraq are struggling to harvest their crops due to Turkish airstrikes.
Warplanes are attacking on two fronts, one of them targeting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which controls much of the apple farming area.
STORY-LINE:
Tree branches at an Iraqi apple farm are heavy with fruit.
But many are likely to go unpicked.
The farm's owner considers the job to be too dangerous.
This orchard is in the Northern Kurdish region and in an area controlled by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Turkey has been carrying out airstrikes against the group since July.
"It affected us because we cannot go to our farms, we cannot go to our planted gardens up in the mountains, and it affected us because we can not take our livestock for breeding in the open lands. It all affected us," says Selim Ahmed, the apple farmer.
So apples fall from branch to ground, rotting where they land.
But Ahmed's livelihood faces more problems than just the Turkish jets.
The Islamic State group controls large swathes of the country - areas his farm used to supply.
So the market is now much smaller and there's an over supply of apples in Dohuk and Zakho.
"It's because it can not be sent to any place, it can not be sent to Mosul. It can not be sent to Baghdad either, plus the impact of the war with Daesh, and the government here doesn't help us to cope with these circumstances," Ahmed complains.
He owns three apple farms in the area.
Ahmed says he used to make nine to ten million Iraqi dinars per year (7,578 - 8420 US Dollars).
This year he won't even make one million dinar (842 US Dollars).
The 66-year-old says the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) needs to provide help. They already provide essential public services in the area, so the farmers want to know why can't they help the crucial agricultural situation.
"We don't have refrigerators to keep the product. The government should bring refrigerators to us in order to preserve the apples, or to be canned in an apple canning factory," Ahmed says.
In the nearby village of Maii, the Kani Masi Agricultural Department has been monitoring the situation.
Its director, Abdul Aziz Mohammed, says apple sales have been devastated.
"I'd say from 2013 we used to export 6,000 to 7,000 tonnes of apples per year," he says.
"This year the production is not good at all because of the air strikes. More than 13 to 14 villages were evacuated by the farmers because of the air strikes. Which is why there are hardly any sales and harvesting. I'd say they aren't even able to sell 2,500 to 3,000 tonnes to the local market," Mohammed continues.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey and Western countries.
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SA may export dates to Iraq
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South Australia's Agriculture Minister Michael O'Brien has had talks with the visiting Iraqi ambassador about growing dates in the Riverland for export to the Middle East.
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Introducing Strawberries to Iraq
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- Updated: 22 Nov 2012
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Learn more at http://www.Inma-Iraq.com
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California Soil Health Partnership
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Productive agriculture, Healthy environment, Sustainable future.
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[313] Forcing God on Buddhist Children, GMO Contamination: Farmer v. Farmer & R.I.P. Pete Seeger
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Abby Martin Breaks the Set on Pete Seeger's Legacy, Creationist Biology, Protection from GMO Contamination, and the Crypto-Currency of Today
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EPISODE BREAKDOWN: On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin pays homage to the late folk singer and American activist, Pete Seeger, highlighting his personal achievements and lasting legacy. Abby then remarks on a Louisiana ACLU lawsuit against a high school teacher who told a student to change his Buddhist beliefs to conform to the school's creationist curriculum, or transfer to a school with "more Asians". Abby then speaks with Scott Kinnear, director of the Safe Food Foundation, about the case of Steve Marsh, an Australian organic farmer who lost his organic certification after his crops were contaminated by Monsanto GM seeds. BTS wraps up the show with an interview with Andreas Antonopoulos, founder of Root Eleven and co-host of let's Talk Bitcoin, discussing how Bitcoin works, and why it's so important to have a decentralized system of money.
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smart farming equipment 2016, inter row planting machine new invention farming equipment
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New technology farming equipment in the world new compilation, inter row cultivator, new modern agriculture machine, inter row planting machine, amazing .
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Food safety fears see farming return to high-rise Hong Kong
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- Duration: 2:07
- Updated: 14 Sep 2014
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It's a rural tradition that faded out decades ago as Hong Kong turned into a neon-lit megacity: rice seedlings being dropped into watery paddy fields with gentle plops. But now a new wave of farmers are growing the staple again. Duration: 02:06
https://wn.com/Food_Safety_Fears_See_Farming_Return_To_High_Rise_Hong_Kong
Иракские финики. Iraqi dates. dates Iraq. 5 April 2016
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- Updated: 05 Apr 2016
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Как цветут финики. Цветение пальмы. Как цветет пальма.
https://wn.com/Иракские_Финики._Iraqi_Dates._Dates_Iraq._5_April_2016
Baghdad Market
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- Updated: 22 Jul 2011
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http://baghdadmarketelcajon.com/ Baghdad Market is a International hub where one can find the Mediterranean & Arabian flavors all under one roof.
Straightforward ad that invites customers to visit your grocery store for the finest in fresh foods.
Everyone knows fresh tastes best. That's why we offer the widest variety of fresh foods available. We also know fresh doesn't just taste better, it's better for you too. Quality foods -- fresh and delicious. Right in your neighborhood.
https://wn.com/Baghdad_Market
