The Investment Authority in Basra announced on Friday that a Kuwaiti investor has made progress in implementing an agricultural investment project to establish a large farm in a desert area, where he succeeded as a first step in the cultivation of more than 1000 palm trees.
The head of the body in the province Ali Jasp in an interview with Alsumaria News, "The project of agricultural investment implemented in a desert area west of Basra, the Kuwaiti businessman Abdul Aziz al-Babtain has reached an advanced stage, and the project is to establish a large farm," noting that " Planting more than 1,000 palm trees as a first stage, and plans to cultivate other species of new varieties, but it has difficulties in importing them. "
"The farm is dependent on irrigation on 14 artesian wells, and the farm is set to establish 1,650 plastic houses to grow some crops," he said. "The project, in addition to its economic importance, is of great environmental importance as it limits the phenomenon of desertification" .
The investor Abdul Aziz Saud al-Babtain was born in the province of Basra in 1936, and graduated from the school of survival in the Zubair district, and then went to Kuwait to engage in the practice of trade to become one of the most prominent businessmen in the Gulf region, and is a well-known poet, The region has many honorary doctorates from universities including universities in Tehran, Algeria, Baku, Kuwait, Cordoba and Yarmouk.
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The head of the body in the province Ali Jasp in an interview with Alsumaria News, "The project of agricultural investment implemented in a desert area west of Basra, the Kuwaiti businessman Abdul Aziz al-Babtain has reached an advanced stage, and the project is to establish a large farm," noting that " Planting more than 1,000 palm trees as a first stage, and plans to cultivate other species of new varieties, but it has difficulties in importing them. "
"The farm is dependent on irrigation on 14 artesian wells, and the farm is set to establish 1,650 plastic houses to grow some crops," he said. "The project, in addition to its economic importance, is of great environmental importance as it limits the phenomenon of desertification" .
The investor Abdul Aziz Saud al-Babtain was born in the province of Basra in 1936, and graduated from the school of survival in the Zubair district, and then went to Kuwait to engage in the practice of trade to become one of the most prominent businessmen in the Gulf region, and is a well-known poet, The region has many honorary doctorates from universities including universities in Tehran, Algeria, Baku, Kuwait, Cordoba and Yarmouk.
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