As temperatures in Southern Iraq approached 52 degrees Celsius (126°F) last July, Habib Salman, a 52-year-old farmer in the Al-Islah township, shot himself in the head, leaving behind an eleven-member family.

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Patriarch Louis Sako of the Chaldean Church said there are only 57 churches left in Iraq compared to 300 churches in 2003, and those that remain continue to be targeted.

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An Advent of light and shadow for Iraq's Christians, who are celebrating the reopening of the cathedral of Baghdad but at the same time subjected to new - and heavy - threats from a radical Shiite Muslim leader.

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Elan Expo have been organising international exhibitions on the sectors of construction, food, textile, electric-electronic, packaging, mechanics, franchising, metal etc. in many countries since 1997.

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The Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq has postponed a law, which requires several certificates regarding poultry product and egg imports, Turkey’s Economy Minister Çağlayan said.

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As tensions rise among Iraqi Kurds in the country's north, Sunnis in the south and the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad over the distribution of natural resources, Turkey is setting its sights on an unconventional alliance with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

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Aviagen and Vano group recently held their first national Iraq poultry seminar. It was attended by over 80 senior mangers, owners, veterinarian’s poultry producers from all parts of Iraq.

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A delegation from the International Energy Agency spent two days in Baghdad speaking with high-ranking officials in preparation for an end-of-year report on the country's oil sector. By some estimates, Iraq could hold some of the largest oil reserves in the world and an international auction for oil and natural gas blocks is planned for May. Without a hydrocarbon law, and considering the fractured political system, the IEA's report may be more about political obstacles than oil potential, however.

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Ross customers in Iraq were once again, within a few months, given two further opportunities to connect with the Rasun and Aviagen Technical Support teams.

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The growing poultry market in Iraq has seen increasing demand for Ross products in the country as Aviagen invests in service, product quality and technical, veterinary and nutritional support.

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The growing poultry market in Iraq has seen increasing demand for Ross products in the country as Aviagen invests in service, product quality and technical, veterinary and nutritional support.

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After nearly nine years, all US Forces are mandated to withdraw from Iraqi territory by 31 December 2011 under the terms of a bilateral agreement signed in 2008. Now the job facing the war-torn country is to re-build its economy.

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According to Iraqi Council of Representatives Oil and Energy Committee member Furat al-Sharei, the 10 oil fields that spread across the Iraqi-Kuwaiti frontier are still waiting to have a line drawn through them to delineate the border, more than eight years after a coalition led by U.S. forces toppled the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

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Powell The plight of Iraqi Christians since the fall of Saddam Hussein has been agonizingly personal for Aram Butrus Matti.

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As many as 21,590 hens infected with bird flu were culled at a poultry farm in Chuadanga.

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Iraq took delivery of more than 200,000 metric tons of wheat from Australia, Hassan Ismail Ibrahim, director general of the country’s Grain Board, said.

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Rasun, part of the Vano Group, one of Iraq’s premier agriculture companies and the Ross GP distributor for Iraq, has announced an agreement to extend its Grandparent (GP) production base in order to meet the growing demand for Ross 308 Parent Stock (PS) and broilers in the country.

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Taking part in the Iraq rebuilding program, VDZ trading is supplying two complete slaughter houses for cattle and sheep to the cities of Karbala and Al Ramadi. Both slaughter houses will be identical with a capacity of 2500 sheep and 200 cattle per day each. The delivery of VDZ trading includes the slaughter lines, rendering equipment and waste water treatment system as well as conveying the knowledge and know-how of installing, running and maintaining a slaughter house.

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Iraq’s poultry industry continues grow amid an improved overall economic environment, increased feed availability, and a lower level of violence over the past two years. A drop in poultry imports has been balanced by increased domestic production. Access to feed, especially soybean meal, will be a constraining factor on growth in the poultry sector in 2011.

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Twenty senior extension specialists with the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture this week completed an advanced program in agricultural training in South Australia. Rural Solutions SA provided the training, which was funded by AusAID as part of the Federal Government’s support towards the reconstruction and development of Iraq’s agricultural sector. Agriculture Minister Michael O’Brien said the group arrived in Australia on May 1 and will return to Iraq on Saturday (June 25).

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Hussein and Dr. Wejdi Alshammary, two brothers and businessmen making a living in Diyala province, Iraq have created the Iraq Grand Parent Company, which is leading the way for the poultry industry in the province. Almost a year ago the brothers received their first shipment of day-old chicks from Arbor Acres, a subsidiary of poultry breeder Aviagen, to serve as the grandfather flock for all of Diyala province.

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Hussein and Dr. Wejdi Alshammary, 2 average brothers and businessmen making a living in Diyala province, Iraq, have created the Iraq Grand Parent Company, which is leading the way for the poultry industry in the province. Almost a year ago the brothers received their first shipment of day-old chicks from Arbor Acres, a subsidiary of poultry breeder Aviagen, to serve as the grandfather flock for all of Diyala province. Since then, they have constructed a hatchery and they breed and sell chicks to poultry farmers, a feed mill, and a slaughter house in Khalis.

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Politics is never far away in the Australian grains industry, and the big argument at the moment is who'll be the public face of grain growers at a national and international level. While state farming organisations argue amongst themselves, countries like the United States are busy pushing into markets we formerly had a stronghold over. Iraq is one example where the US Grains Council, which represents American feed grain growers, is developing a possible $300 million market.

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The Ross distributor in Iraq, Rasun (part of the Vano Group), recently organised a successful Feed Formulation Training Course in association with the Iraq Poultry Producers Association (IPPA) and the College of Agriculture at the University of Salahaddin.

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Iraq post-war figues show: In US$ 9 billion GCC food market size, Iraq’s halal-food imports estimate at US$ 2.5 billion for its 30 million population “With the political stability and opening up of the economy in Iraq, we believe the Iraq will re-emerge as an economic power in the Middle East region.” – Saleh Lootah, CEO, Al Islami Foods.

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Now that AWB has, as its chairman said, ''put behind it'' the Iraq kickbacks scandal by settling for $39.5 million a shareholder class action, you might ask whatever happened to Norman Davidson Kelly

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Australian wheat exporter AWB has admitted that it knew the fees it was paying to a Jordanian transport company were being passed on to Saddam Hussein's regime

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Ross customers in Iraq recently participated in a video link-seminar organised by the Ross Middle East Customer Focus Team and Vano Group, Erbil, Iraq, to ensure effective, regular communication and technical service to this growing market

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The USAID Inma Agribusiness Program is revitalizing Iraq's fish industry, providing technical training to farmers to increase economic opportunities while placing traditional food back into the reach of Iraqi families. Amer Said Obaid has farmed fish for 15 years, struggling to keep his small farm economically viable with mounting

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A recently established international partnership will focus on developing a “strong and viable beef and lamb feedlot industry” for Iraq, according to project participants. The partnership

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Drought conditions in 2008 and 2009 severely reduced Iraq’s output of food and feed grain crops

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The US 2nd Brigade Combat Team have distributed medical supplies to Iraqi veterinarians in Kirkuk with the aim of supporting agricultural production, which is crucial for the local economy. Captain Kimi Damassia, who led the supply effort, said that northern Iraq relies heavily on the success of its agriculture, specifically

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THE man in charge of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's investigation into AWB's secret payment of kickbacks to Iraq has revealed the regulator believes the Cole Inquiry reached the wrong conclusion about what AWB's former boss, Andrew Lindberg, knew about the payments. In an extraordinary

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An Iraqi buying consortium, made up of poultry producers and feed millers, traveled to the United States last week to review the US grain marketing system as they move forward in modernising their feed industry and world grain trade dynamics.

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One has to remember the word of Collin Powell “ If we break it we must fix it”. Having said that it is still nice to see the attempt to win hearts and minds. US Soldiers lent their agriculture and engineering expertise to help bring a chicken processing plant into operation near Mahmudiyah, Baghdad, Iraq. This plant will provide food and jobs.Getting

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THE corporate regulator has launched a fresh wave of legal action against former AWB chief executive, Andrew Lindberg, alleging that for more than two years he misled his fellow directors by failing to tell them the company corruptly paid more than $US225 million to Saddam Hussein's regime. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission alleges Mr Lindberg knew from as early as 2003 about the illicit payments, their nature and extent, as well as the gravity of allegations made against AWB about the payments, but he did not tell the board. It alleges Mr Lindberg knew that the so-called "inland transport fees" AWB paid to Iraq, plus a second levy representing 10 per cent of the value of AWB's wheat shipments, were a "sham" designed to circumvent UN sanctions, yet he kept his fellow directors in the dark.

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U.S. soldiers used their agriculture and engineering expertise to help bring an idle chicken processing plant near Mahmudiyah back into operation; one that will provide food and jobs, according to Sgt. Jon Soles of the Multi-National Division Baghdad. Possessing agribusiness and engineering backgrounds, North Carolina Guardsmen with 1st Battalion, 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, visited the al-Kien plant near Mahmudiyah to offer advice and find ways to help the plant begin operating.

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AWB was "on the horns of a dilemma" after US-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003 because it had prepaid millions of dollars of "bribes" to Saddam Hussein's regime and the prospects of being fully reimbursed via official UN food programs were dicey, a court has heard.

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THE corporate regulator's pursuit of former AWB chief executive Andrew Lindberg over the Iraq kickbacks scandal will be adjourned this week as the regulator hurries to issue a second, and possibly bigger, case against him. The double-barrelled move against Mr Lindberg by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has complicated the opening days in the Victorian Supreme Court of its civil penalty case against him. ASIC has

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U.S. Department of Agriculture initiative to help Iraqi farmers implement new technologies and methods in the country.

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AWB apparently paid millions of dollars in bogus inland transport fees to Iraq even when the Australian grain exporter's wheat shipments were rejected at the port of Um Qasr, according to internal company documents tendered in the Victorian Supreme Court. A detailed schedule compiled by a senior AWB executive in December 2002 showed how much AWB paid to Iraq for the so-called trucking fees between late March and October 2002.

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The Australian corporate regulator will not be forced to give AWB piles of confidential information garnered during its investigation into the Iraq oil-for-food kickbacks scandal after an appeals court ruled the wheat exporter had already lost the right to claim legal privilege over the material. The Victorian

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Iraq is studying offers from three foreign companies on putting together a strategic 30-year plan for managing its water resources during a lingering and damaging drought, the water resources ministry said on Tuesday. Skip related content Water resources director Oun Thiab Abdullah said 15 companies had originally been invited to make submissions for the $50 million project but only three -- a British, a Russian and an Italian consultancy -- showed interest. The finalist

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raq's prime minister has approved a project by a United Arab Emirates-based company to make biofuel from dates that would otherwise be wasted because they have started to perish

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A program being run with the assistance of Texas A&M Univ. hopes to reestablish a viable beef industry in Iraq. The project brings together the Inma Agribusiness Program at A&M, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Iraqi government

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A woman who made routine visits to a Shiite shrine in southern Iraq has died of swine flu, making it the first death from the deadly virus in the country, a health ministry official said on Sunday. There have

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A recently established international partnership will focus on developing a “strong and viable beef and lamb feedlot industry” for Iraq, according to project participants. According to a news release from the Texas A&M University, the partnership between the Inma Agribusiness programme, U.S. Agency for International

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The poultry industry in Ninawa province faces collapse due to the withdrawal of subsidies and cheaper imports of poultry meat.

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A Senior Director of the US Grains Council (USGC) describes the successful development of the Iraqi poultry industry over recent years, which has also increased demand for US feed grains

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A commission has been set up and interest-free loans provided to re-start Missan Poultry Company.

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Trade Minister Abdul Falah al-Sudani has replaced the heads of Iraq’s grain board and the foodstuff trading company which imports wheat, rice and sugar.

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