00:00 The dough in Iraq is one of the challenges of food security in the country.
00:05 The annual need is 700 billion chicken and 15 billion eggs.
00:10 More than 80% of them are secured by importing local production products worth 4 billion dollars.
00:17 But with the government's support for local industry,
00:20 domestic production has started to reject markets in large quantities
00:24 by contributing to active investment projects, the most prominent of which is the agricultural city of Karbala.
00:29 It is a true example of successful investment.
00:32 It is a project that has proven its worth and its reality.
00:37 It has proven its success in the past.
00:40 It has carried out several projects and has led to a significant achievement in production.
00:47 It has contributed actively to support local products,
00:52 considering them as Iraqi investment projects,
00:55 which is a happy thing when investment in such projects reaches these stages.
01:04 And thank God, today we see that after the price of the egg carton, which exceeded 80 thousand dinars,
01:10 today it is available in the markets for less than 70 thousand dinars.
01:14 The private sector experience seems to be changing.
01:17 The agricultural city project is being built in the depths of the desert,
01:20 through the reformation of 230 thousand tons.
01:23 The project is being carried out with new specifications,
01:26 which include the availability of agricultural crops and the production of chicken and egg,
01:30 as the largest project for the dairy sector in Iraq and the region.
01:33 The agricultural city of Karbala consists of several strategic projects,
01:37 including the Karbala Valley project,
01:40 with a production capacity of 350 million egg cartons,
01:44 which is 35% of the country's population.
01:49 The egg will be converted into a fattening project,
01:53 to produce fattening chickens in 960 cities.
01:58 One city can accommodate 35 thousand birds.
02:01 The third project is the production of egg cartons,
02:04 with an annual capacity of 3 billion egg cartons.
02:07 The project, which provides 25% of the country's need,
02:11 produces 300 million egg cartons annually.
02:14 In addition to the presence of a large farm with multiple production lines,
02:18 the project contributes to the decline in unemployment in three provinces by about 4%,
02:22 thanks to the operation of 8 thousand employees with different specializations.
02:26 This project consists of 5 production lines,
02:29 4 of which are 7500 bird per hour,
02:32 and the last production line is 4000 bird per hour.
02:35 All of this together makes 34 thousand birds,
02:39 as a production capacity.
02:41 The project works 9 hours a day, 4 hours a day, and 18 hours a day.
02:45 Currently, we are working with 50% of the production capacity,
02:48 according to the market demand and the number of chickens imported from the farms.
02:53 The success of the current experiment ensures the continuous production of
02:56 live egg, egg carton, and chicken meat.
03:00 This confirms the possibility of developing the private sector
03:03 to expand and update the domestic market,
03:05 which meets the local need or export in the future,
03:08 if the country witnesses similar projects of the same size.
03:12 Iraq has once again returned to the leadership of the domestic market in the region,
03:15 this time through the private sector,
03:18 with a comprehensive investment that ensures a comprehensive production phase,
03:21 according to local energy and modern technology.
03:24 But it needs to be marketed in order to compete with the revolutionized product.
03:29 Raed Nabeel, CNBC, Arabia, Karbala province.
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