{"id":384645,"date":"2025-03-21T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=384645"},"modified":"2025-03-21T14:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:01:17","slug":"iraqs-diyala-grows-70000-tons-of-citrus-fruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/iraqs-diyala-grows-70000-tons-of-citrus-fruits\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq\u2019s Diyala grows 70,000 tons of citrus fruits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The <strong>Iraqi province of Diyala<\/strong> announced on Friday (21) the production of more than <strong>70,000 tons of citrus fruit<\/strong> during the country\u2019s winter season, according to a report published by the Iraqi state news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/ina.iq\/eng\/38912-diyala-more-than-70000-tons-of-citrus-fruits-produced-during-the-winter-season.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ismail Talib Hassan, Secretary of the Diyala Farmers\u2019 Associations Union, said that markets and shops have witnessed crowding of local crops despite the presence of imported crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Hassan, there was an increase in fruit production in Diyala despite the water shortage the province experienced. \u201cDiyala has suffered from <strong>drought over the past three years<\/strong>, which has had a severe impact on the agricultural situation in the province,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International organizations have been working to support agriculture in Diyala. A news report published at the end of 2024 by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) says that the agency, in partnership with the Japanese government, <strong>rehabilitated a nursery<\/strong> of the Diyala Department of Agriculture, providing irrigation and solar energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report, this nursery will have more than 25,000 seedlings per year available for 4,000 farmers in the province and plays a crucial role in the local community, producing a diverse range of plants and trees, including <strong>fruit-bearing varieties<\/strong> such as citrus, apple, pomegranate, and fig trees, as well as ornamental and shade trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/private-sector-helps-iraq-expand-education\/\">Private sector helps Iraq expand education<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-384652\">\u00a9Sabah Arar\/AFP<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraqi province announced good results in the fruit harvest, despite the adverse weather conditions faced in the past three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":384652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[40626,52710,2540,2671,591,52711,5163,5089],"class_list":{"0":"post-384645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agribusiness","8":"tag-arvores-en","9":"tag-diyala-2","10":"tag-fruits","11":"tag-harvest","12":"tag-iraq","13":"tag-nurseries","14":"tag-production","15":"tag-trees"},"wps_subtitle":"The Iraqi province announced good results in the fruit harvest, despite the adverse weather conditions faced in the past three years.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}