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Expectations of achieving agricultural self-sufficiency within 3-5 years
Economic 2024/11/05
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Baghdad: Hussein Thaghab
The specified period of (3-5) years is sufficient to achieve self-sufficiency in agricultural crops, according to specialized economic circles that studied the reality of Iraq and the available components in all regions of Iraq. These circles agreed on the possibility of working to increase production capacities to achieve self-sufficiency as a first stage, and then head to the global market in the subsequent stage.
The international economic expert, Muhammad Al-Ubaidi, believes that "Iraq is capable of achieving self-sufficiency in food products within a period of (3-5) years, relying on the country's own agricultural capabilities."
Al-Obaidi told Al-Sabah: “We presented a comprehensive study based on the country’s available capacities of water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, groundwater and rainwater, according to each region and the water it relies on, and the crops suitable for it, as the country requires important strategic crops that are the most important pillars of food security.
High productivity
Al-Obaidi added that the study included indicators of the country’s need and mechanisms for achieving self-sufficiency within a maximum period of (5) years, indicating that some of these mechanisms can be achieved within (3) years, as we focused on all strategic crops and vegetables that can be grown in Iraq, and where they can achieve high productivity.”
Growing Demand
The economic expert pointed out that the strategic crops that we stopped at in the study and the country's need for them amount to (36) crops, as the country needs annually to cover the growing demand for wheat to more than (7.5) million tons, corn to more than (4) million tons, barley to more than (2) million tons, and sunflower to more than (3.4) million tons, in addition to the chickpea crop, the need for which reaches more than (780) thousand tons, and lentils to more than (2.2) million tons.
Fruit crops
As for fruits, Al-Abidi confirmed that the country's need for some types of fruit crops such as oranges reaches more than (2) million tons, lemons to more than (1.3) million tons, and sweet lemons to more than (870) thousand tons, while the numbers of other fruits vary, and we also presented the country's need for vegetables, the most important of which are tomatoes, which exceed (2.5) million tons, and eggplant to more than (2) million tons, while the need for cucumbers exceeds (1.4) million tons annually.
Implementation plan
He said: To meet these needs, there must be a program to achieve food security that includes the country's database in full so that we can calculate the self-sufficiency quantities and reach its annual target numbers to achieve national food security, and this was included in the study accurately, and that the basis for entering the food security program is knowing the data to reach the target numbers, as food security is target numbers that must be achieved so that we can achieve the desired goal of the program's implementation plan.
Food security
He stated that according to what we mentioned in the introduction to this study, the national plan to achieve food security is target numbers that must be achieved to ensure food security for our country, and that every target number for one of the agricultural and animal wealth materials and food industries is considered a must to be achieved as it is a goal and without achieving the goal there is no self-sufficiency or
food security.
Basic crops
He explained that grain crops are of fundamental importance in human life, and have played an important role in the past. As they were the pillar on which the world relied in the past and still play the same important role at the present time, increasing agricultural production, especially grains, is of interest to many countries in the world. The most important reasons for this are the problem of food shortages and the increasing demand for these materials as a result of the rapid increase in population and the inability to meet human needs, as most of the world's population depends on grains for their food, which is estimated at more than (90%) of the total world population, as grain crops are among the basic crops in providing food.
Promoting production,
member of the Baghdad Economic Forum Hadi Handas explained that Iraq has vast areas of arable land in addition to the availability of fresh water and groundwater, and this can create an effective agricultural sector, pointing out that this trend requires high coordination between the public and private sectors to promote production and protect locally produced agricultural crops. He stressed that the Ministry of Agriculture and professional organizations concerned with agricultural affairs have the responsibility to work hard to protect agricultural production during peak production, noting that this raises agricultural production levels and makes the capital cycle within a local framework and achieves great economic benefits.
He also pointed out that Iraq has agricultural areas that cover the country's needs and achieve a surplus with the country's capabilities, and thus agricultural production can be described as permanent oil.
Human Development
Earlier, economic affairs specialist Muhammad Abdul Karim stressed the importance of human development and focusing on raising the educational level and paying attention to infrastructure and services in
rural areas.
He pointed out that developing agricultural production requires implementing projects to stop sand encroachment and limit desertification near residential areas and establishing specialized research and guidance stations covering all regions, as well as securing scientific and applied guidance materials and training farmers continuously on modern methods of managing the production process, and encouraging the use of modern technologies.
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