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Agriculture: security events caused losses in crops and continuing our plans for the advancement of the sector
17/05/2015
Baghdad
See specialists that the agriculture sector is suffering for decades from low production levels as a result of the security and political conditions experienced by the country, as they stressed the need to work on Deim the national economy through this vital sector, the ministry indicated that it is working hard for the advancement of Iraqi agriculture, saying it was seeking open to partnerships with investment companies to introduce new technologies and to provide financial liquidity.
Technical Undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Mahdi al-Qaisi said in an interview for the "long" that
"The ministry maintained its support despite the bad financial circumstances through which Iraq levels, were supported seeds higher ranks by 80% because the wheat and barley crops are crops Strtejah within the food security of the citizen and we got to about 80% of self-sufficiency for those crops and no security events for we came to self-sufficiency in full as well as the continued support of rice, maize, either for the Gaza palm Vhmlatna free continuing to address the scourge of Dubas and Humera and we have achieved real success, "noting that" support continuously for the sector livestock through the support of feed and artificial insemination free and campaigns carried out by the ministry as part of vaccinations of livestock. "
He added that "the ministry banned the importation of many of the vocabulary of vegetables were preventing the importation of tomatoes, cucumbers and potatoes for months to encourage domestic production and support, as well as legalizing import of vegetable crops Other because the local product is not enough to cover the entire need. "
And agricultural contribution initiative in the development of the reality of Iraqi agriculture between Qaisi "The ministry has been able through the initiative, providing money where Project was launched buy sprinkler irrigation systems and provide the support of 50%, which led to increased productivity crops mission including wheat, as well as facilities in the framework of the agricultural aviation, agricultural lending without interest, "pointing out that" lending came to a very large sums of money through the Agricultural Bank. "
He noted that "agricultural initiative contributed significantly to the development of agricultural production, but this sector has suffered a lot of cumulative problems and the need to time and resources for the advancement of the sector, as well as the introduction of investment, which leads to a qualitative and quantitative leap to production ", describing the investment as" one of the foundations essential for the development of the agricultural sector. "
He continued by saying that "the security situation is an obstacle to investment in the agricultural sector as well to obstacles in investment laws where we need a lot of amendments in the law as well as the provision of banking facilities. "
And the agricultural sector losses after the events of Mosul in June 2014, al-Qaisi pointed out that "for Nineveh deprived us of the receipt of wheat and barley crops and seeds higher ranks because the security events It coincided with the harvest stage, in addition to the loss of part of the wealth that occurred Alehioanahwalkhosair equipment and agricultural mechanization, despite being a personal holdings but affect the agricultural sector in general. " Explaining that "the province of Nineveh did not intervene in the current agricultural season 2014-2015 so there is no receipt for wheat and barley crops, including under customary contexts within the agricultural plan."
He noted that "some other problems marred the agricultural season as the ministry could not receive part of the crop Agricultural in all of Salahuddin, Diyala, Anbar and Kirkuk, affecting the product. "
He continued by saying that "for the compensation of Nineveh province, a product of wheat and barley we could under the agricultural plan and under what is available from water imports expansion of agriculture in some central provinces and we have partial compensation of what we lost in Nineveh . "
He pointed out, "We have plans and programs for the development of wheat and barley crops, such as the national program for the development of cultivation of wheat and barley, and through him we were able to increase productivity per unit area, and through the program and the use of technologies of modern irrigation Kmenzawmat sprinkler backed by 50% we have the increase in productivity and we expect that this season, recouping all spaces denied to us in Nineveh. "
And the size of Iraq's production of the wheat crop pointed Qaisi that "in the last year received the Ministry of Commerce 3.4 million tons, but the product is higher than this figure because many of them personal holdings and some of them to provide the seeds of higher ranks , with an estimated production of wheat in the last year up to 4 million tons, but for this year, we believe that the receipt will reach the limits of 3.5 million tons. "
For his part, economist said Sadiq al-Bahadli, in an interview for the "long" that "the contribution of the agricultural sector in the gross domestic product was nearly 22% in the fifties of the last century, but it has deteriorated a lot and became less than that percentage is much the result of the circumstances that led that this vital sector deteriorated since the eighties. "
He added Bahadli "that the reasons for the deterioration of this sector is the full state's dependence on a rentier economy and the oil money in the provision of imports and budget dependent on minority vitality present in the oil sector where he became completely dependent on the oil sector, the state. "
He noted that "a lot of agricultural land abandoned by peasants since the eighties, which led to the deterioration of this sector and the reasons for this decline is the absence of government support and poor planning and management economic and partly political reasons. "
He noted that "import uncontrolled large commodity and dumping that occurred after 2003 also led to the deterioration of this sector, as well as the power supply and high fuel prices crashes factors led to increased costs on farmers, raising product prices National in the agricultural sector for the importer, and therefore we do not have the ability to compete with neighboring countries products. "
He stressed the need to "reduce costs to farmers through the provision of support Alkafiottguenin imports to create a competitive state between domestic agricultural product and the importer."
He noted that the "nature rentier economy Iraq has made the rest of the meager sectors and lazy and made us rely entirely on oil, which led to the negligence of the state to the productive sectors, "adding that" interest in this sector contributes to the diversification of economic our sources and we have sufficient ingredients for the advancement of agricultural production. "
and investments in the agricultural sector pointed Bahadli that "Investing is a lung advancement of any economy, but must employ relevant laws and legislation to invest a way that contributes to an effective contribution to creating a sound investment environment develop those important productive sectors."
The Committee on Agriculture Parliamentary confirmed, in (the 25 of January 2015), that Iraq is going through conditions economic difficult because of the dependence on oil and "neglect" of agriculture and industry, while the government has demanded to send private agricultural sector laws to the House legislation, pointed to the possibility of boarding Iraq for the first orders in the export of agricultural products in the region.
The Ministry of Agriculture announced that, in (24 of January 2015), for the development of a five-year plan to maintain food security in the country, while confirming that what happened in the provinces of Nineveh and Salahuddin, Diyala and Kirkuk after the tenth of the month of June 2014, caused the suspension of agricultural production in those provinces.
The Ministry of Agriculture announced earlier in proximity to the self-sufficiency of some crops such as wheat and barley crops not for the security events that took place in a number of Iraqi provinces, indicating its status plans to fill the shortage of crops by expanding cultivated in the central and southern regions.
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17/05/2015
Baghdad
See specialists that the agriculture sector is suffering for decades from low production levels as a result of the security and political conditions experienced by the country, as they stressed the need to work on Deim the national economy through this vital sector, the ministry indicated that it is working hard for the advancement of Iraqi agriculture, saying it was seeking open to partnerships with investment companies to introduce new technologies and to provide financial liquidity.
Technical Undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Mahdi al-Qaisi said in an interview for the "long" that
"The ministry maintained its support despite the bad financial circumstances through which Iraq levels, were supported seeds higher ranks by 80% because the wheat and barley crops are crops Strtejah within the food security of the citizen and we got to about 80% of self-sufficiency for those crops and no security events for we came to self-sufficiency in full as well as the continued support of rice, maize, either for the Gaza palm Vhmlatna free continuing to address the scourge of Dubas and Humera and we have achieved real success, "noting that" support continuously for the sector livestock through the support of feed and artificial insemination free and campaigns carried out by the ministry as part of vaccinations of livestock. "
He added that "the ministry banned the importation of many of the vocabulary of vegetables were preventing the importation of tomatoes, cucumbers and potatoes for months to encourage domestic production and support, as well as legalizing import of vegetable crops Other because the local product is not enough to cover the entire need. "
And agricultural contribution initiative in the development of the reality of Iraqi agriculture between Qaisi "The ministry has been able through the initiative, providing money where Project was launched buy sprinkler irrigation systems and provide the support of 50%, which led to increased productivity crops mission including wheat, as well as facilities in the framework of the agricultural aviation, agricultural lending without interest, "pointing out that" lending came to a very large sums of money through the Agricultural Bank. "
He noted that "agricultural initiative contributed significantly to the development of agricultural production, but this sector has suffered a lot of cumulative problems and the need to time and resources for the advancement of the sector, as well as the introduction of investment, which leads to a qualitative and quantitative leap to production ", describing the investment as" one of the foundations essential for the development of the agricultural sector. "
He continued by saying that "the security situation is an obstacle to investment in the agricultural sector as well to obstacles in investment laws where we need a lot of amendments in the law as well as the provision of banking facilities. "
And the agricultural sector losses after the events of Mosul in June 2014, al-Qaisi pointed out that "for Nineveh deprived us of the receipt of wheat and barley crops and seeds higher ranks because the security events It coincided with the harvest stage, in addition to the loss of part of the wealth that occurred Alehioanahwalkhosair equipment and agricultural mechanization, despite being a personal holdings but affect the agricultural sector in general. " Explaining that "the province of Nineveh did not intervene in the current agricultural season 2014-2015 so there is no receipt for wheat and barley crops, including under customary contexts within the agricultural plan."
He noted that "some other problems marred the agricultural season as the ministry could not receive part of the crop Agricultural in all of Salahuddin, Diyala, Anbar and Kirkuk, affecting the product. "
He continued by saying that "for the compensation of Nineveh province, a product of wheat and barley we could under the agricultural plan and under what is available from water imports expansion of agriculture in some central provinces and we have partial compensation of what we lost in Nineveh . "
He pointed out, "We have plans and programs for the development of wheat and barley crops, such as the national program for the development of cultivation of wheat and barley, and through him we were able to increase productivity per unit area, and through the program and the use of technologies of modern irrigation Kmenzawmat sprinkler backed by 50% we have the increase in productivity and we expect that this season, recouping all spaces denied to us in Nineveh. "
And the size of Iraq's production of the wheat crop pointed Qaisi that "in the last year received the Ministry of Commerce 3.4 million tons, but the product is higher than this figure because many of them personal holdings and some of them to provide the seeds of higher ranks , with an estimated production of wheat in the last year up to 4 million tons, but for this year, we believe that the receipt will reach the limits of 3.5 million tons. "
For his part, economist said Sadiq al-Bahadli, in an interview for the "long" that "the contribution of the agricultural sector in the gross domestic product was nearly 22% in the fifties of the last century, but it has deteriorated a lot and became less than that percentage is much the result of the circumstances that led that this vital sector deteriorated since the eighties. "
He added Bahadli "that the reasons for the deterioration of this sector is the full state's dependence on a rentier economy and the oil money in the provision of imports and budget dependent on minority vitality present in the oil sector where he became completely dependent on the oil sector, the state. "
He noted that "a lot of agricultural land abandoned by peasants since the eighties, which led to the deterioration of this sector and the reasons for this decline is the absence of government support and poor planning and management economic and partly political reasons. "
He noted that "import uncontrolled large commodity and dumping that occurred after 2003 also led to the deterioration of this sector, as well as the power supply and high fuel prices crashes factors led to increased costs on farmers, raising product prices National in the agricultural sector for the importer, and therefore we do not have the ability to compete with neighboring countries products. "
He stressed the need to "reduce costs to farmers through the provision of support Alkafiottguenin imports to create a competitive state between domestic agricultural product and the importer."
He noted that the "nature rentier economy Iraq has made the rest of the meager sectors and lazy and made us rely entirely on oil, which led to the negligence of the state to the productive sectors, "adding that" interest in this sector contributes to the diversification of economic our sources and we have sufficient ingredients for the advancement of agricultural production. "
and investments in the agricultural sector pointed Bahadli that "Investing is a lung advancement of any economy, but must employ relevant laws and legislation to invest a way that contributes to an effective contribution to creating a sound investment environment develop those important productive sectors."
The Committee on Agriculture Parliamentary confirmed, in (the 25 of January 2015), that Iraq is going through conditions economic difficult because of the dependence on oil and "neglect" of agriculture and industry, while the government has demanded to send private agricultural sector laws to the House legislation, pointed to the possibility of boarding Iraq for the first orders in the export of agricultural products in the region.
The Ministry of Agriculture announced that, in (24 of January 2015), for the development of a five-year plan to maintain food security in the country, while confirming that what happened in the provinces of Nineveh and Salahuddin, Diyala and Kirkuk after the tenth of the month of June 2014, caused the suspension of agricultural production in those provinces.
The Ministry of Agriculture announced earlier in proximity to the self-sufficiency of some crops such as wheat and barley crops not for the security events that took place in a number of Iraqi provinces, indicating its status plans to fill the shortage of crops by expanding cultivated in the central and southern regions.
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