Iraq bans Turkish tomato imports to boost local production
“The tomato products of Najef and Karbala have considerably increased and it needs more support to boost the local product,” read a statement from the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources.
The statement adds that these two provinces “could meet the domestic demand of [all] the Iraqi provinces as well.”
Rudaw has learned that this decision will not apply to the Kurdistan Region.
From Turkey, Iraq, according to government statistics, had imported tomatoes valued at $98.5 million in 2014, $82.8 million in 2015 and $88 million in 2016.
source: rudaw.net
