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iraqi wheat news june 7 2011, iraq agriculture - Over 250,000 tons of wheat marketed in Wassit: WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: Over 250,000 tons of wheat have been marketed by peasants and farmers of the agricultural crop for 2010-2011, the Director of Wassit’s Branch of the stated-owned General Company for Grain Trading has stated on Tuesday.

“The stores of the General Company for Grain Trading in Kut and Suwaira towns have received 253,000 tons of grain, within the winter season of 2010-2011, whilst an agreement had been reached for marketing of crops of the northern parts of Wassit Province to Baghdad’s Rusafa stores,” Engineer Malik Khalaf told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Iraq’s Trade Ministry recently announced that southern Iraq’s Wassit Province leads among the country’s provinces in growing and marketing wheat and barley for the current season.