The 12th festival lasts four days, combining the marketing of local agricultural products with boosting commercial and tourism activity in the Kurdistan Region.
The city of Halabja in the Kurdistan Region has turned into a destination for farmers and visitors with the launch of the 12th Pomegranate and Autumn Festival, featuring the participation of more than 550 orchard owners, farmers, and business owners. The four-day event highlights local agricultural production and its role in supporting the economy and stimulating tourism in the region.
The City Park and the Amusement Park are hosting the festival’s activities, which have become an annual platform for marketing agricultural products and introducing the crops Halabja is famous for, as well as attracting visitors and tourists from various cities and regions across the Kurdistan Region and Iraq.
Festival participants emphasized the importance of this event in providing direct selling opportunities for local products and boosting the sources of income for farmers and orchard owners, alongside revitalizing the city’s markets and commercial activity.
In this context, Keyvan Fareeq, an orchard owner participating with a number of pomegranate products, told Roj News that the festival offers an important opportunity to market local produce and contributes to drawing large numbers of tourists to Halabja, which positively impacts the local economy.
He added that the festival allows farmers and orchard owners to sell their products directly, thereby enhancing marketing opportunities for local crops and supporting those working in the agricultural sector.
For her part, Hana Star, the daughter of a farmer who came from the village of Basharteh to participate in the festival, said that this event has turned into a festive occasion eagerly awaited by the people of Halabja, given its economic, social, and tourism significance to the region.
Star welcomed visitors and tourists coming from various areas, affirming that the festival contributes to reviving the agricultural sector and stimulating tourism, as well as highlighting Halabja’s distinctive local agricultural production.
The festival displays dozens of varieties of pomegranates, alongside local products, handicrafts, and women’s creative works, within a framework that combines supporting agricultural production with showcasing women’s skills and local heritage.
The festival continues to attract visitors from cities and towns across the Kurdistan Region and various parts of Iraq, serving as a space to support local produce, boost commercial and tourism activity, and reinforce Halabja’s status as one of the prominent pomegranate-producing regions.
