The Iraqi desert...a treasure trove of mineral and natural resources awaiting investment

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[size=52]The Iraqi desert...a treasure trove of mineral and natural resources awaiting investment[/size]

[size=45]Ali Al-Hamdani[/size]
[size=45]Desert lands cover an area exceeding 41% of the area of ​​Iraq, and despite the mineral and natural resources they contain, they have not been invested appropriately yet, which makes Iraq at the forefront of countries that are wasting their wealth greatly, according to specialists.[/size]
[size=45]The Iraqi desert is rich in many mineral and natural resources, in addition to being fertile soil suitable for agriculture, in addition to being a successful land road linking the borders of four countries represented by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan and Syria, according to the economic researcher, Ahmed Eid.[/size]
[size=45]Eid added in an interview with (Al-Mada), “The Iraqi desert is also a reservoir for large quantities of groundwater, oil, sulfur, and silicate materials that are used in the glass industry. It is also a reservoir for natural gas, and a center for animal grazing during the rainy seasons, because it contains species of Multi-herbal.[/size]
[size=45]However, the Iraqi desert was not invested in a manner commensurate with the resources it contains, according to Eid, attributing this to “weak economic management in the country, which focuses its attention on rentier revenues without considering the means of investment and natural extraction of other resources.”[/size]
[size=45]He asserts, “Investing the Iraqi desert with modern agriculture and the petrochemical industry and the natural gas it contains provides opportunities to provide tens of thousands of job opportunities, among employees, administrators, and technicians, and also provides export opportunities for the Iraqi products that can be produced there.”[/size]
[size=45]The economic researcher calls for “granting investment opportunities, whether for desert agriculture or food manufacturing industries, to companies from leading countries in these fields, instead of restricting them to incompetent Iranian companies, and the aim of referring them to them is to provide opportunities for money laundering operations on the one hand, or to achieve political and partisan goals and agendas.” On the other hand".[/size]
[size=45]For his part, the environmental expert, Ahmed Saleh, points out that “Iraq contains large deserts such as the Ramadi Desert, the Samawah Desert, and other separate parts of deserts inside Iraq, but they have not been exploited in any way except the Samawah desert from an agricultural standpoint. As for the desert in general, it is... “You have not invested yet.”[/size]
[size=45]Saleh explains during his talk to (Al Mada) that “in all countries of the world, the use and investment of the desert has become an important matter for the vast areas, whether for tourism or for the extraction of some minerals or some compounds, and also for the vast areas on which the sun’s rays fall for investment in the areas of sustainable development of electrical energy (energy). clean)”.[/size]
[size=45]In turn, the Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Investment Committee, Hussein Al-Saabari, says, “The area of ​​the desert amounts to 41% to 45% of the area of ​​Iraq, and there are agricultural investment projects that work has begun, including the Ataba projects in the desert near Karbala Governorate towards Anbar, and projects Others are in the Najaf desert, as well as in the Samawah desert, where production reaches large quantities.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Saabari continues in an interview with (Al-Mada) that “the agricultural projects coincided with large and huge projects for animal production, including the poultry project in Karbala, a cattle station in Najaf, and dairy factories in Muthanna.”[/size]
[size=45]The Vice Chairman of the Investment Committee calls for giving investment opportunities to foreign companies “because these companies have a long history in advanced agriculture through sprays, other technologies, and plant genetics, as well as in animal husbandry.”[/size]
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