Supplying equipment and machinery for Al-Latifia agriculture farming became another interesting project for the Al-Burhan Group. For the first time in the national privatisation, hatchers were manufactured as part of a combined — cycle unit with a total capacity of 230,400 and ready to expand to a bigger capacity in collaboration with Petersime of Belgium. The farm, which was built by the British in 1946, is in the same state of ruin as others in the region before we took it over.

This was the result of $4.5 million investment. We plan to build a $4 million farm for 2,500 heads of dairy cattle. Unlike the Babylon region whose traditional farm buildings are made of bricks and designed to keep out the elements, the new buildings will have a modern open structure and be more automated. Today we are pooling the resources of the leaders in the Iraqi agriculture market to ensure that Al-Latifia is a highly efficient and ecologically friendly farm.

AF poultry houses are installed at 16 houses at a capacity of 150 chickens. The dimensions of the houses are 15m´120m. Foreign companies import proteins by Al-Burhan's trading arm IKB International Plc, London. Allowing us to resolve the environmental issues and to raise the income of the whole farm with no shortage of water. An investment has been made on land of 20 hectares, 4 fish ponds of 5 hectares each and branches of 8 fish ponds, and in 2004 we invested in a further 4 ponds. This investment was integrated into the Al-Latifia farm. On this basis that the AF project was an elaborated comprehensive programme to create fish hatchery ponds.

This village of 200 houses is separated from the nearest bumpy asphalt road by 2 km. The district seat and railway line immortalized by the late poet of Iraqi existential hopelessness Bader Shaker Alsaiab in his masterpiece (Railway line) is just 2 km away with a bus connection to it.

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