FAO Day: April 17
FAO Day is a public holiday in Iraq.
Food and Agriculture Organization Day (FAO) is celebrated in Iraq to mark the organization’s goal of assuring food security, disseminating effective farming methods and providing machineries and technologies for better farming and livestock-raising techniques. This holiday is celebrated every 17th of April yearly.
History of Iraq’s FAO Day
Iraq is one of the countries in the United Nations which maintain membership with Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). FAO operates as one of the United Nations’ agencies that is tasked to create agendas, policies, and actions to prevent and, eventually, end world hunger. The organization also seeks to modernize the field of agriculture, forestry, livestock raising/animal farming, including fisheries across all member countries, both the developing and developed ones.
FAO-Iraq is active in cross-country agricultural expedition on improving the country’s food security and responding to its citizen nutrition demands especially in poverty-stricken areas by implementing policies that drives food production in the household level.
Iraq’s FAO Day: Traditions, Customs and Activities
Iraq’s Ministry of Agriculture usually holds agenda during the celebration with topics covering important issues surrounding food security in Iraq and important bills and laws passed concerning food manufacture in the country and the impact of environmental crisis that regularly strikes the region such as drought. The working class usually takes their day off during the holiday.
It is also during this time when FAO-Iraq awards personalities, usually farmers, in the important role they play in supporting food security all throughout Iraq.
