» Home » Business News Iraq Directory Services Plans Subscription Contact us Site Map Help About Iraq Extraction of crops irrigated by salt water Baghdad The national program in Ministry of Agriculture is developing two new agricultural axes, beside the three major axes in two rivers plain area. The director of the program in Ministry of Agriculture said that the first axis is represented by using salt water in farming, while the second axis is developing and extracting crops which bear saltiness. The director of the program declared that the working staff on the second axis finished studies and researches on movement of groundwater in southern part of Euphrates plain and in area between Karbalaa and Najaf. Another national program started to increase palm trees planting. Iraq Business News Service: (Translated from Arabic) © 2002-2004 Iraq Directory - All Rights Reserved