| Description | Folder of papers comprising some 90 individual items, mainly presscuttings from the Baghdad Observer and other newspapers during the early 1980s, but also Crusoe's handwritten notes and press faxes. Topics covered include drainage schemes, soya bean cultivation, forestry, agrarian reform in Kurdistan, plant vaccination, computerisation, national self-sufficiency and land distribution, agricultural policies in relation to both the economy and political ideology, developments along the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates, locust invasions, irrigation, Iraqi-Soviet co-operation, impact of the Iran-Iraq war on farming, development of marshes and deserts, Moroccan immigrants and collaboration, possible use of reeds in construction, manufacture of agricultural machinery, the use of oil revenue to develop agriculture, and the sugar industry. |