Diwaniyah, Iraq, Oct 4, 2025 (AFP) - Iraqi farmers protest cultivation ban amid drought

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2025-10-04

Hundreds of Iraqi farmers protested Saturday against the government's policy of curbing land cultivation to preserve dwindling water supplies, an AFP correspondent said. Year-on-year droughts and declining rainfall have brought agriculture to its knees in a country still recovering from decades of war and chaos, and where rice and bread are diet staples. Water scarcity has forced many farmers to abandon their plots, and authorities have drastical......

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