Northern Badia - the geographical reality and investment possibilities

Abstract

Operates the Northern Badia the western part of Iraq and an area of ​​(110.287) km 2, constituting 25.4% of the area of ​​Iraq amounting to (434 128) km 2, with a dry climate based on climatic data represented by the scarcity of rainfall and high rates of heat than the consequent poverty cover vegetation, which is an important resource for the development of livestock and improve soil properties mm reflected I said on the breadth of areas soils desert poor in organic matter, which does not exceed the rate of 1% with the exception of some depressions GOES them some valleys of the discharge procedure and therefore rely on rain as a resource aqueous important has become a kind of risk-taking in agricultural production, which has become to rely on surface water from the Euphrates River, which runs through the study area from west to east and a length of up to about 450 km so that became the main supplier of agricultural investment as well as groundwater and in a limited way is disproportionate to their geographical distribution