Academic: the agricultural sector needs to be regulated joints

Academic: the agricultural sector needs to be regulated joints



07/04/2017 0:00

Baghdad / Emirate Imad
high levels of agricultural production has become a necessity to contribute effectively to supplement the federal budget by money, which goes to import, through activation of this sector and make it a source of most of the crops and can thus move away from the national character of the rentier economy.
Economic academic Dr. Ahmed Omar al- Rawi said the "morning" that Iraq depends on external sources to secure the bulk of the agricultural needs of both consumer food or agricultural production inputs together, and especially basic commodities. Rawi pointed out that the Ministry of Agriculture and the concerned authorities to import tables indicate that Iraq suffers from a sustained deficit because of the superiority of agricultural imports and exports an average of 1, 3 billion dollars , in the best years. Economic questions , and there are many questions raised by the owners of economic affairs and concerned the agricultural sector: you could leave everything on agriculture to market forces? If there are real reforms in the agricultural sector , what are the areas of those reforms or where to start? Do you edit or input prices for agricultural output? What is the size of the reform effects on small - scale farmers? . He stressed that these questions find answers represented by the project of the Iraqi government after the political change that has occurred after 2003, and through the application of economic reform in certain sectors of programs, noting that the agricultural sector underwent the other is to these reforms , some of which dish and the other is looking forward to the future with the slow pace in the programs of reform . He continued the narrator can stand on the main themes of agrarian reform, including reducing the direct role of the state and reduce its involvement in many of the production and service activities and shorten the role of the state to develop promotional and regulatory policies and drawn plans, relying on market mechanisms and the liberalization of prices and give opportunities and make space for the private sector to assume the investment and marketing responsibilities management, and the privatization of state agricultural enterprises and re - administration of the agricultural sector to sector private. Growth rates and pointed to the existence of a group of pros in the application of economic reform programs , the most prominent of achieving high growth rates in economic productivity and agricultural efficiency by reducing production costs and improve product quality and improve the income levels of workers in the agricultural sector so as to achieve a balance between their income and the entry of workers in sectors other. Adding: then work to achieve stability in the countryside and the desire to work, and the rational use of agricultural resources and directed towards peaceful uses so that they can reach the levels of agricultural production to meet the needs of the population of food commodities and increase the flow of investment to the sector agricultural. Reform programs and hinted that economic reform programs make the private sector , the focus of the main bet for success, but accurate follow - up to the behavior of this sector, in countries that have adopted economic reform in the agricultural sector and made the private sector , the foundation axis of this change, he found that the private sector does not adopt only policies gain rentier in various Dharoppe of speculation, contracting, brokerages and transactions, and did not actually engage in development activity is really the product, whether agricultural or industrial. He explained: Accordingly, there is a range of negative consequences that resulted from these programs can be summarized down the volume of employment in projects that privatized and increasing unemployment rates against the increase in the number of people living in poverty line, as a clear diversity in the production did not happen , or a significant reduction in the level of indebtedness Foreign countries that have implemented these programs with the rise in imported production Kaltquaoui, fertilizers, pesticides, tractors and combine harvesters accessories prices.


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