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 ...

Iraq enjoys tremendous oil wealth but many hard-scrabble farmers in the north say crude spills have contaminated their lands, piling on pressure as they already battle drought. Amid the hills of ...

Farmer Qasim Abdul Wahad looks at one of his date palms which are struggling due to salination and lack of water near the village of Abu Al-Khaseeb in southern Iraq’s Basra governorate, March 6, 2022.

After seeing his once-lush rice field shrink in recent years due to relentless drought, Iraqi farmer Muntazer al-Joufi fought back using tougher seeds and water-saving irrigation techniques. "It's the ...

Heavy rains and increased river flows have allowed Iraqi rice growers to cultivate the staple crop on its largest area in ...

ABU AL-KHASEEB, Iraq, April 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Until a few years ago, farming in southern Iraq was "as lucrative as oil", Qasim Abdul Wahad remembers, and his one-hectare farm plot in ...

Oil spills in Iraq's north pollute otherwise fertile farmland, rendering vast fields barren - Copyright AFP Abdel Khalek Azzawi Oil spills in Iraq's north pollute ...

Experts say new methods using sprinklers and drip irrigation use 70 percent less water than the traditional flooding practice of Iraqi rice growers — Qassem al-KAABI After seeing his once-lush rice ...

Iraq enjoys tremendous oil wealth but many hard-scrabble farmers in the north say crude spills have contaminated their lands, piling on pressure as they already battle drought. Amid the hills of ...