date:Jul 02, 2018
tion and quality of the fruit. While global output of dates increased exponentially between 1978 and 2008, Iraq fell progressively behind.
In the 1990s the industry was affected by the sanctions imposed against Iraq after Saddam Husseins invasion of Kuwait.
In 2000, approximately one million metric tonnes of dates were produced an increase of 748,900 tonnes from 1984, when fighting in the Iran-Iraq war was at its heaviest. The last 18 years, however, has seen a precipitous slump in Iraqi date