Iraq achieves self-sufficiency in strategic crops - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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A farmer helps an excavator to unload wheat grain at a silo in Mosul, Iraq June 12, 2019. Picture taken June 12, 2019. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari - RC15C546A580 — A farmer helps an excavator to unload wheat grain at a silo in Mosul, Iraq, June 12, 2019. — REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

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