Iraqi farmer Hadi Saheb says he is cultivating 20 times more land than before in the Najaf desert thanks to groundwater and a government initiative — Qassem al-KAABI Farmer Hadi Saheb cannot wait to ...

NAJAF, Iraq, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Iraqi wheat farmer Ma'an al-Fatlawi has long depended on the nearby Euphrates River to feed his fields near the city of Najaf. But this year, those waters, which made ...

STORY: Iraqi farmers are increasingly expanding their operations into the desert. Enabled by government-subsidized sprinkler systems, some farmers say the shift from flood irrigation to sprinklers has ...

Farmer Hadi Saheb cannot wait to see his wheat fields flourish in the heart of the desert after he tapped into groundwater reserves in water-starved Iraq. He is just one of many Iraqis who have turned ...

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