Al-'Awali Agricultural Project

The al-Abbas's (p) Holy Shrine announced starting to implement a large multi-benefit project for the production of strategic agricultural crops, such as wheat, barley, potatoes and palm trees as a first step, provided that it would later include other crops of importance and benefit to the Iraqi family, thereby contributing to supporting the national product and restoring its agricultural identity, investing for this sake large parts of the Karbala Desert to turn them into green oases, as a contribution to combating desertification taking advantage of the abundant groundwater, through a project entitled (Al Awali) implemented by Al Liwa International Company specialized in designing and implementing the infrastructure for major strategic projects (one of the al-Abbas's (p) Holy Shrine companies) And, it is located deep in the desert on the road linking Karbala to Ain Al-Tamr, using modern and advanced technologies and mechanisms.