PM directs contracting between Ministries of Agriculture and Industry to supply irrigation systems

Baghdad-INA  
Prime Minister Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani stressed today, Monday, the importance of adopting irrigation systems in order to increase production and address water scarcity, while directing contracts between the Ministries of Agriculture and Industry to supply irrigation systems.
 
The media office of the Prime Minister said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani, chaired this morning a meeting at the headquarters of the General Company for Construction Industries, one of the formations of the Ministry of Industry and Minerals, devoted to following up on structural reforms in the agricultural file in the presence of the Ministers of Industry and Minerals and Agriculture, a number of advisors in the Prime Minister’s Office, the general directors of the two ministries, in addition to the head of the agricultural associations and a number of officials in the Central Bank and the Agricultural Bank.
 
At the outset of the meeting, according to the statement, Al-Sudani referred to "the importance of adopting irrigation systems in order to increase production, address water scarcity, and the measures taken to shift from traditional irrigation systems to modern ones, at an affordable price and in a quick time and according to a clear plan and vision in distribution," stressing "The need to adopt a specific plan, with roles distributed among all parties, and to select agricultural lands for which water is available to operate irrigation systems."