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Supporting agriculture to achieve food security
19/10/2016 0:00
[rtl]BAGHDAD / Imad emirate
rise in demand facing a few in advance of the local market need of increasing to different types of crops in conjunction with the population growth of Iraq 's agricultural unit production, which highlights the need for a serious and hard work to achieve food security.
Economic expert , Dr. Ahmed Omar al- Rawi said: the advancement of the agricultural sector, starts from the rehabilitation of irrigation and drainage and soil conservation projects, and called for its adoption as a basis for raising the productivity per dunam of agricultural land, particularly in the south of Iraq and the Euphrates.
He stressed the narrator in his "morning" on the need to solve the problem of salinity and desertification and attention actively pasture, forest and aquatic Almstahat to activate theanimal production and fisheries.
saw agricultural production over the past years a significant decline due to negligence ,which affected all its facilities as well as the ability to compete with imported from crops and declining agricultural reform plans.
He stressed that these measures need to be large sums of money can be obtained byborrowing from the World Bank or investing regional and global institutions at concessional rates of interest on long - term, noting the importance of increased allocation of agricultural advances and loans investment in the same area amounts, and work to stimulate and develop the work of the Agricultural Bank and Fund lending to thepeasants, with a soft credit facilities in order to revitalize the agricultural and livestock production.
narrator refer causes of the problem now in Iraqi agriculture to three main factors are land, water, labor, explaining that the production of agricultural land in the country, when compared with those of the territorial integrity of states and regional foreign, shows thelow productivity of agricultural dunum.
He said the wheat crop, for example, in dunam up to half a ton obtained best and others may not reach that figure low.
He pointed out that Iraq is grown more than 9 million acres However the ISD this figure is the country 's need of grain due to poor productivity per dunum, either in some countries regional neighboring countries or the world , with up productivity dunum to 1 ton Aoncef ton of wheat.
He said the narrator many reasons behind this difference is that including the lack ofadequate Alambazl to drain irrigation water, along with the scarcity of water for irrigation private lands that are irrigated from the Euphrates River, referring to the tendency ofmany of peasants and farmers there to dig artesian wells to compensate for the shortage of irrigation water amounts, knowing that these wells need to be integrated irrigation system of pumps and systems , sprinkler and distillation associated with them.
the land reform process stalled for nearly three decades because of the former regime 'spolicies, where it was specialized international companies implementing land reclamation operations. the
narrator said that lately , imported the Ministry of Agriculture irrigation pumps , solar -powered and entered her experience in the city of Karbala in order to compensate for the other , which are powered by diesel fuel, to compensate for the processing is not enough of the national electricity system. for
his part academic Dr. Ammar Majid on the need to continue supporting the input of local agricultural production president of seeds and fertilizer, machinery, pesticides and diseases that affect plants and animals, and if they forced the state to reduce support for Msltzmat agricultural production for one reason or another, Valdharorh spend time limit to reduce the support gradually put for a limited period is not lengthened.
He explained that the first problem is the deterioration of agriculture in Iraq dating back to desertification and access to the remaining agricultural land, due to leave the farmer or farm their land for more than four seasons as a result of financial distress due to receipt of marketing dues crops into granaries, which amount to large sums of money.
He said the worker the other for the emergence of desertification is the urban sprawl of cities on rural areas account , which led to a decrease in the green belts that had surrounded the Iraqi cities, and the simplest example of this is the province of Baghdad in the regions of Taji and towns.
he went on to say that the other challenge is the rise in imported fertilizers fertilizer urea and phosphate from several countries such as the UAE Arab, Iran and Qatar , where up value per ton of imported fertilizer to 750,000 dinars or more , while the price per ton of local pure urea less so
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