الانتاج الزراعي في العراق بين الواقع والطموح

Abstract

Agricultural production, with its animal and botanical parts, has an important role to perform in varying the income so as to meet the local demand. However, there are some obstacles that hinder agricultural production, some of which are infrastructure damage, shortage of water, and barrenness. Consequently, there was a decline in the levels of production after 2003 due to fragile political and security conditions (which are important and effective factors in agricultural production), the absence of interest in nets of irrigation, the bad conditions of roads, transportation, electricity in the agricultural regions, and the rise in the prices of fuel, the matter which leads to the rise of the local agricultural products and the competition of imported agricultural goods resultant of the policy of openness to the external world which has deep influence on the decline of the agricultural production in Iraq. In light of what has been said, the research will set out from the hypothesis of the availability of factors of agricultural production in Iraq yet faced with the obvious problem of deficiency in both animal and botanical fields and insufficiency in covering the requirements of local consumption due to the openness to the world and the negative impact left by the profusion of goods on production. The objective of the research is analyzing the reality of agricultural production in both its two components: the animal and botanical in Iraq, knowing the aspects of deficiency in it, and looking up to the future of this reality As regards the approach of the research, it is of four main sections, the first section contains an analysis of the reality of agricultural production in Iraq, the second deals by analysis with the reality of botanical production in Iraq, and the third is dedicated to the analysis of the reality of animal production. The fourth section is a future vision to the reality of agricultural production in Iraq. The research ends with a number of conclusions and recommendations.