Kurdistan to increase carrot production to lessen import dependence
“After two years of examining three types of carrot seeds from the Netherlands, Germany and the United States, we found out that the Dutch seeds were very suitable to the Kurdistan Region’s climate. Hence, as an experiment, we planted carrot seeds for 50 farmers on 612,500 square-meters of land in 45 different places in Erbil, Duhok, Sulaimani and Kirkuk,” Haval Kamal Agha, the supervisor of the carrot growth project at ARD Company, said.
Figures obtained by the Kurdish Ministry of Trade and Industry show that Kurdistan has spent $38,117,000 on importing carrots and other related products from Turkey and Iran over the past three years.
“In the future, we will try to develop carrot growth through the private sector as carrots are in high demand and Kurdistan’s environment is suitable to plant this vegetable,” he added.
source: rudaw.net
