Syagwez village/ Sulaimaniya is located in the Iraqi Iranian border, it is one of the villages that has a great agricultural land and products, in October every year its people start to harvest walnut and prepare it to be ready to go to the market.
2/10/2012--Syagwez,Sulaimaniyah,Iraq-- A view of Syagwez village.
Syagwez is located in the Iraqi Iranian border, it is one of the villages that has a great agricultural land and products, in October every year its people start to harvest walnut.
4/10/2012--Syagwez,Sulaimaniyah,Iraq-- Luqman Sharif is a 35 year old man who lives in Syagwez, he has been collecting walnut for about ten years, this year for collecting their walnuts Mahmood's family will give him 60.000 ID (50$) each day.
2/10/2012--Syagwez,Sulaimaniyah,Iraq-- All the collected walnuts are placed and prepared to be peeled.
4/10/2012--Syagwez,Sulaimaniyah,Iraq-- 34 year old Zmnako is working as a bank employee in Sulaimaniya, when autumn begins he comes to Syagwez to harvest and collect his family's walnuts in their garden.
3/10/2012--Syagwez,Sulaimaniyah,Iraq-- Luqman is collecting the walnuts after he placed a big sheet on the ground so all the walnuts will fall on the sheet. A height of the walnut tree is between 18 to 24 meters and they use a long stick to make the walnuts fall off the tree.
3/10/2012--Syagwez,Sulaimaniyah,Iraq-- Children who help their family by peeling the green skin off the walnuts.
3/10/2012--Syagwez,Sulaimaniyah,Iraq-- Zmnako built a small house in their garden where they can rest and pray.
4/10/2012--Syagwez,Sulaimaniyah,Iraq-- Their hands is darken because of peeling the walnuts and that color will remain for at least a month.
2/10/2012--Syagwez,Sulaimaniyah,Iraq-- After a six hour collecting walnuts Mahmood Rasul's family is taking a break to eat their lunch.
3/10/2012--Syagwez,Sulaimaniyah,Iraq-- A woman who lives in Syagwez is one of those many Syagwez's people who is collecting the walnut from the ground after they fell off the tree.
5/10/2012--Syagwez,Sulaimaniyah,Iraq-- After three days of drying the walnuts in the sun Zmnako is supervising the way walnuts are mixed together because each walnut is different from another, they came from different trees.
5/10/2012--Syagwez,Sulaimaniyah,Iraq--Children are playing with the donkey that was prepared to transfer the walnuts from the farm into the village.
5/10/2015--Syagwez,Sulaimaniyah,Iraq-- Zmnako is busy with preparing the walnuts to be dried out and be ready for the market.
3/10/2012--Syagwez,Sulaimaniyah,Iraq-- Zmnako with his friends are preparing the collected walnuts to be transferred into the village, it is their culture to help each other during harvesting and farming.
9/10/2012--Sulaimaniyah,Iraq-- A photo of a shop that sells local products including those walnuts that were harvested and been transferred from villages in the Iraqi Iranian border.
1/11/2012--Sheqlawa,Erbil,Iraq-- A photo of a shop that sells local products including those walnuts that were harvested and been transferred from villages in the Iraqi Iranian border.