In the city park of the Iraqi city of Halabja, a three -day grenade festival was started, which is very popular with visitors.
The head of the local authorities Nasih in the conversations “Anadolu” said that a rich grenade is collected in the city annually – about 30 tons. Part of this crop is exported to the southern provinces of Iraq.
Marking the high quality of the grenade grown in Halabja, Nasikh expressed confidence that about 700 thousand people will visit the festival in three days. To attract a larger number of guests, including foreign ones, special invitations were sent, he added.