>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/13/03 8:16 PM >>> Planners are considering gradually replacing some groceries with cash welfare payments or some version of food stamps that could be redeemed at local markets. Besides giving shoppers more choices, the change would also help Iraqi merchants and farmers, because consumers would presumably buy more local fruits and vegetables instead of relying on the many imported foods in their rations. Yoshie <<<<<>>>>>
re. iraqi grown fruits and vegetables, isn't percentage of country's irrigated land damaged by salinization one of highest in world (on order of about 1/3rd)... michael hoover
