Calamitous Times For America's Colony
The planned destruction of Iraq is nearing completion. It's telling that the people are wistful for Saddam.
Iraq in midst of ‘agricultural disaster’
"Just before harvest time the fields around the city of Kut used to be thick with barley, sunflowers and maize. This year large areas were left bare as farmers fell victim to a water shortage that has pushed agriculture in Iraq to the brink.
"We are suffering, all of us," said Falah Mohammed al Dirian, a local farmer. "It has been one crisis followed by another. There is no rain, there is no water in the rivers, the land is ruined by salt, we cannot afford fuel for our generators and there is no help from the government.
"Mr al Dirian’s family has been working the land for generations but the 38-year-old said he now sees no future in it."All of the farmers I know are encouraging their children to get different types of work, mainly in the Iraqi police and security forces," he said. "There is not much money in farming now. In fact we are losing money these days."
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It is a far cry from the 1970s, when Iraq’s lush farming zones between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers grew food for export across the Middle East. Government officials blame years of agricultural neglect under Saddam Hussein, although most farmers now look back on those times as years of comparative plenty."
Iraq in midst of ‘agricultural disaster’
"Just before harvest time the fields around the city of Kut used to be thick with barley, sunflowers and maize. This year large areas were left bare as farmers fell victim to a water shortage that has pushed agriculture in Iraq to the brink.
"We are suffering, all of us," said Falah Mohammed al Dirian, a local farmer. "It has been one crisis followed by another. There is no rain, there is no water in the rivers, the land is ruined by salt, we cannot afford fuel for our generators and there is no help from the government.
"Mr al Dirian’s family has been working the land for generations but the 38-year-old said he now sees no future in it."All of the farmers I know are encouraging their children to get different types of work, mainly in the Iraqi police and security forces," he said. "There is not much money in farming now. In fact we are losing money these days."
(...)
It is a far cry from the 1970s, when Iraq’s lush farming zones between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers grew food for export across the Middle East. Government officials blame years of agricultural neglect under Saddam Hussein, although most farmers now look back on those times as years of comparative plenty."
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