MOC: The Food Security Project supports the agricultural and industrial sectors

Economy
  • 22-04-2020, 17:24
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    Baghdad - INA

     

     Trade Minister Mohammed Hashem Al-Ani confirmed today, Wednesday, support for the national food security project in Iraq.

     "The food security project aims to reach self-sufficiency and support the agricultural and industrial sectors," Al-Ani said in an interview with the Iraqi News Agency (INA).

     He added that this project will contribute to the stability of the country, stressing the achievement of self-sufficiency in wheat, which helped stop import operations and hard currency exit from the country.

     The Minister of Planning, Nuri al-Dulaimi, had announced earlier, a strategy to achieve food security from agricultural crops and animal products in Iraq.