A worker at a rice mill in Iraq's central province of Najaf, where water shortages mean a drastic reduction in the amount that can be cultivated (Photo: Qassem al-Kaabi/AFP)
A farmer ploughs a wheat field in the northeastern Kurdish-held city of Qamishli, part of the Syria's breadbasket region of Hasakah which has been hit hard by low rainfall (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
In 2020, the KRG established an agricultural program that includes several phases, the first of which will oversee 100,000 tons of wheat to be marketed by state companies and others working with them. (Photo: Archive)
