{"id":221182,"date":"2026-07-24T14:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/221182\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:07:08","slug":"cross-border-river-flows-revive-iraqs-diyala-orchards-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/221182\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-border river flows revive Iraq\u2019s Diyala orchards &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-07-24T13:42:29+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Diyala<\/p>\n<p>Orchards in Mandali district, east of Iraq&#8217;s Diyala<br \/>\nprovince, are receiving sufficient water supplies for the first time in nearly<br \/>\n25 years, reviving large areas of farmland, the district head said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Dhamad told Shafaq News that water levels have recently<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/society\/Iraq-ramps-up-water-releases-as-flooding-fills-Diyala-s-reservoirs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">increased<\/a> in several rivers flowing from Iran, including the Souk, Jani, and<br \/>\nBagh rivers, providing enough water to restore agricultural activity across<br \/>\nwide areas.<\/p>\n<p>Dhamad expected the improved water supply to boost this<br \/>\nseason&#8217;s agricultural output by around 20%, with higher production of citrus<br \/>\nfruits, dates, and other crops, alongside better crop quality compared with<br \/>\nprevious years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Report\/Iraq-s-agricultural-landscape-Overcoming-challenges-amid-water-scarcity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Iraq&#8217;s agricultural landscape: Overcoming challenges amid water scarcity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-24T13:42:29+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Diyala Orchards in Mandali district, east of Iraq&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,63586,18493,94,63587,5533],"class_list":["post-221182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-breaking","tag-cross-border-river-flows-revive-iraqs-diyala-orchards","tag-diyala","tag-iraq","tag-orchards","tag-water"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116975346912986397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}