A ship loaded with more than 40,000 tons of American rice arrives at Iraqi ports
A ship loaded with more than 40,000 tons of American rice arrives at Iraqi ports
2024-02-28 00:08
Shafaq News/ The General Company for Foodstuff Trade, affiliated with the Ministry of Commerce, announced on Wednesday the arrival of the ship (FLORENTINE OETKER) loaded with 44,000 tons of rice for the food basket.
A statement by the Ministry’s Media Office quoted the company’s General Manager, Lama Hashem Al-Moussawi, as saying that the ship had arrived at the delivery area in the port of Umm Qasr and was loaded with rice to be prepared as part of the food basket.
The statement added that a team of laboratory examiners in the company’s Quality Control Department boarded the ship’s deck upon its arrival to withdraw samples of rice in order to conduct a preliminary examination, and then send the models to the company’s Central Quality Control Department laboratory in Baghdad to complete the rest of the tests to indicate its suitability for human consumption before launching. Preparation operations for agents.
She added that the company will unload the rice material, prepare a marketing plan for the quantity and distribute it to the governorates as soon as the results of the laboratory examination appear.
In the same context, the statement confirmed the arrival of containers loaded with Canadian red lentils, confirming that samples had been withdrawn and sent to the laboratory of the Quality Control Department in order to be examined.
Iraq adopted the ration card system following the issuance of UN Security Council Resolution No. 661, issued on August 6, 1990, imposing an economic blockade on the country as a result of Saddam Hussein’s regime’s invasion of Kuwait.
The ration card went through different stages, between the prosperity and multiplicity of its types of items after the United Nations agreement with Iraq, the so-called oil for food and medicine, at the end of 1996, and the reduction of the items, the decline of their types, and the slowdown in their distribution periods with the end of the agreement and the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003.
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