Parliamentary economy calls for the revitalization of the agricultural sector

Parliamentary economy calls for the revitalization of the agricultural sector

1/18/2016 0:00

BAGHDAD Shaima Rashid

demanded economic and investment commission in Parliament to activate the laws that contribute to the advancement of the agricultural sector such as product protection law and the law of the tariff, and criticized the lack of promotion of the investment law, while alerted that corruption and political interference have caused the deterioration of this important sector.

Committee member Burhan Almamori blamed the deterioration of the agricultural sector on the intervention of political parties and the establishment of a subsidiary of parties companies was in their interest to keep Iraq weak in order to import from abroad to take advantage of personal benefit party, noting that the country is witnessing a big conspiracy aimed at weakening the economy. double the plans said Mamouri, in an interview for »Sabah », that« the financial and economic situation in Iraq is very difficult because of the low price of oil, which is the President supplier of the general budget and it must activate the other sectors which paralyzed due to negligence », indicating that« the weakness of the plans and the lack of strategy and clear lack of seriousness in the effective and correct management of the entire wealth factors led to the deterioration of the economic situation ». Almamori He added that« advance planning for the management of these funds will enable us to diversify our resources to activate the productive sectors such as agriculture and industry », adding that« the diversity of revenue through the border crossing points and the imposition of taxes on imported products things make a stronger Iraqi economy ». He MP for the Liberal bloc that «the agricultural sector saw eighties decades and nineties development in agricultural production in the country reached self-sufficiency because of the great support for the sector by the ministries concerned», adding that «there are laws on the executive branch activated, such as tariff law and the Law on Protection product to find a balance between domestic product and imported especially that Iraq can not at the present time to reach self-sufficiency, but must limit the importer and create some kind of balance ». activating the investment law and continued Almamori that« the investment law, which was passed not to promote him well so that he can The foreign investor and the Iraqi and even companies and countries see it because of its great importance », noting that« law has removed all the obstacles that were encountered in the investor and that it was worried about them ». The member of the Economic Committee to« exploitation funds launched by the central bank to support the agricultural and industrial sector, housing and impose tight control in order to preserve them from being lost, especially if there is a lot of money spent on these sectors, but did not yield anything because of rampant corruption ». The decision of the Commission of Economy and Investment Mahma Khalil stressed the importance of activating the National Product Protection Act in order to support the local industry and advancement. Khalil said , in a press statement, that «the House of Representatives initiated during the previous session of a number of economic important laws such as tariffs and the protection of the domestic product, consumer protection and the right to competition and prevent monopoly, but the government is deliberately not to activate these laws without knowing the real reasons». liberalization of economic laws and added Khalil that «the federal government demand the liberalization of economic laws from their shelves and the application on the ground in order to support local industry and agriculture, in order to diversify state revenues and promote the growth of the national economy», adding that «the National Product Code is one of the most important economic those laws as will ensure the support and development of industry Local ». and see the specialists that the scale of the disaster that beset the agricultural sector calls to try to find some solutions that contribute to save what can be saved from this important sector, which is linked to food security, stressing that this area needs to be serious steps real and gears in order to support and which is in Finally a positive factor in support of the federal economy and reduce the volume of imports of agricultural crops as well as to reduce unemployment and provide job opportunities for graduates specialized in the field of agriculture, this result leads to the reduction of the mass exodus of our young people through a deliberate strategy by professionals and experts in the field plans as well as cooperation with relevant ministries, namely the Ministry of Planning and agriculture, water resources, finance and trade. the development of new plans and called on professionals to develop new plans for the exploitation of agricultural land and good identification of land that need to reclamation and provide the necessary supplies to support the farmer and help him in collaboration with cooperative societies to find out the real problems faced by the farmer and find solutions to them is also necessary to use modern technology in agriculture and irrigation to save energy and money and manpower, stressing the need to try to resolve the water problems with neighboring countries through diplomatic means in order to restore water share and to try to bring agricultural investments by well-known international companies and this will save the state budget a lot of expenses as well as the ability of these companies to reclaim farmland tummy tuck.