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Iraq COVID-19 Food Security Monitor Bi-Weekly Update - Issue 28, 16 February 2021
06 May 2021
- - While the price of oil has increased as global oil markets recover, still some delays in payments owed to wheat and barley farmers who marketed their production to the government. The government has been speeding up its payment transfers before the new marketing season is due to begin in March. The harvest season for wheat and barley in southern Iraq begins in mid-April.
- - Iraq has been ramping up its exports of vegetable production, with MoA facilitating export procedures as part of a government effort to increase exports and regional integration with neighboring countries such as Saudi Arabia.
- - While the prices of basic food items (flour, rice, sugar) have remained stable, vegetable oil prices have increased slightly. Food access, mainly due to lack of money, and coping strategies including relying on lower quality foods and resorting to borrowing are becoming more prevalent at a time when the currency devaluation has increased prices of imported food items.
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