Japan funds a $ 1.5 million FAO project for Iraq

Japan funds a $ 1.5 million FAO project for Iraq



02/18/2018

Economy News _ Baghdad

Japan announced on Sunday that it is financing a $ 1.5 million project for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Iraq, pointing out that the funding comes to provide food, improve food diversity, and promote income and self-reliance.

"Japan has provided $ 1.5 million in support to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Iraq to help fragile families in the areas restored from organizing to promote the means to produce fresh and nutritious vegetables," Japan's Ambassador to Iraq Fumio Iwai said in a statement. "Noting that" the support will benefit three thousand people in the areas affected by the conflict in the provinces of Anbar, Kirkuk, Nineveh and Salahuddin. "


"These families, whether they have not left their areas or have recently returned, will receive input from the production process, their equipment, special training on horticulture, agricultural production in the backyard, and crop-producing glasshouses throughout the year to provide food, improve food diversity and enhance income. Self-reliance. "

"About 1,260 vulnerable households, including female-headed households, will receive a set of gardening tools in the backyard (agricultural containers, seeds, vegetables, fertilizers and manual gardening tools) as well as their own training, while 1,740 others Through the group of glasshouses and provide them with seeds, tools and fertilizers, and training them by the Organization and the Ministry of Agriculture on the production of vegetables, including harvesting, storage, processing and marketing, and will remain glass houses belong to the communities at the end of the project.

"This is the fourth year in a row since Japan began to provide assistance to the Iraqi and Syrian populations affected by the work of its budget," Ewai said. "Assistance to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Iraq comes as part of the new package And the $ 100 million for supporting humanitarian efforts and stability in Iraq. "

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced on February 13 that Iraq lost about 40 percent of its agricultural production as a result of the war against the Da'ash organization.

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