PM Barzani inaugurates $100 million livestock project in Erbil

The Megal project can accommodate 50,000 head of livestock and a 366-dunam slaughterhouse, thus becoming the largest red meat marketing center in all of Iraq.

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Climate change impacts nomadic migration, lifestyle in Kurdistan’s highlands

The herders and nomads say there is a high chance that the production of dairy products will be reduced by half compared to the years with higher rainfall.

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Kurdistan Region tightens livestock imports to curtail hemorrhagic fever

Stricter controls on the importation of livestock are one of several new measures being put in place to contain a recent outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in the Kurdistan Region.

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Iraq faces livestock crisis as foot-and-mouth disease spreads

Zubaidi looked at the land where his ancestors had lived, the land he inherited to continue their legacy of buffalo breeding, then exhaled bitterly, “Centuries of hard work have turned to dust.”

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