VIDEO: Oil spills ravage farmland in northern Iraq
"What is happening is that oil has damaged all that the land can give, every seed we plant gets damaged … This land has become useless," says one farmer.
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Farmers criticise the state for not doing enough to clean up the mess. AFP photo
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AL-MEAIBDI - In the northern Salaheddine province of Iraq, puddles of black crude oil dot the ground, contaminating vast swathes of farmland.