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Shafaq News- Kirkuk\/ Nineveh<\/p>\n
Iraq’s General Company for Grain Trade launched the wheat marketing
\nseason in Kirkuk province on Monday, while silos in Nineveh remain closed
\npending authorization codes from Baghdad, officials told Shafaq News.<\/p>\n
Kirkuk finished second nationally in wheat production last season,
\naccording to company director general Haider al-Karawi.<\/p>\n
The Iraqi Cabinet has fixed the purchase price at 700,000 Iraqi dinars
\n($530) per ton for wheat grown within the approved agricultural plan, and
\n500,000 dinars ($380) per ton for output outside it. Wheat produced outside the
\nplan will not be received until the Agriculture Ministry completes its own
\nprocedures, al-Karawi said.<\/p>\n
Outstanding payments to farmers across Iraq stand at approximately 1.54
\ntrillion dinars (around $1.17 billion), with disbursement contingent on the
\nFinance Ministry releasing the necessary allocations. Oversight and media
\nrepresentatives warned Monday that sustained payment delays risk undermining
\nfarmers’ capacity to finance future planting seasons. \u201cIraq has imported no
\nwheat since 2023, relying entirely on domestic production,\u201d al-Karawi added.<\/p>\n