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Combat Desertification need to agricultural policies
7/10/2015 0:00
BAGHDAD - Hussein al-Tamimi Tgb
represents desertification problem facing the agricultural sector and the need to work mechanisms Court to limit the expansion of areas threatened by desertification, and extends to the effects of desertification negatively affect the advancement of agricultural production trends.
D. Akram Abdel Aziz, an economic expert said: hit large areas of agricultural land in Iraq to the expansion of desertification, after it was capped Green cover a productive plants and trees variety, pointing out that the neglect of the agricultural sector as well as the lack of water and the deterioration of plants and forests cause of expansion, according to statistics available that there is a decline in the number of palm trees to 12 million Palm out of 30 million trees.
She pointed out that the phenomenon of desertification is a real problem, leading to the threat of food security
in light of the low level of productivity of agricultural land where indicated some official agencies that Iraq has 42 million acres arable and Ischgl them only 14 million acres just at a time when the country is witnessing a low level of productivity of agricultural land.
She said during an economic seminar attended the morning that the full reasons for the desertification are varied and multiple different causes in terms of the role of the human element and pattern of land use and the development of pastures and irrigation method and the use of the land.
and demanded to stand on what is produced on the phenomenon of desertification and contributing to climate change through increased dust emission
and the instability of farmers they could get, as well as the lack of ground and surface water and the high rate of evaporation and sand encroachment affecting the productivity of arable land and grazing indiscriminate and cause of the low vegetation of rangelands, indicating that it exercises a significant influence on the deterioration of agricultural production in Iraq.
She search for environmental agricultural policies targeted to reduce this phenomenon is most important to educate the human element in the agricultural field in order to raise the level of his handling of the land and water through extension, control of desertification movement, including limiting land degradation and crawl sandy Perhaps the use of satellites Asntaih in Geological Survey desert aspects of operations may lead to such surveillance and identification of degraded areas due to desertification and gives an indication of the status of groundwater.
Abdul Aziz stressed the importance of the multiplicity and diversity of styles and methods to be adopted in accordance with the foundations of the process and technical to address this phenomenon and to preserve the agricultural healthy environment it can go about planting trees for the purpose of soil stabilization, which is one of the supporting factors as well as the adoption of technical administration to legalize the use of water.
He noted that the excessive irrigation of farmland and methods of such land and water management for watering the land plays a big role in the removal of vegetation and the dismantling of the soil and exposed to erosion, as well as that these policies could lead to increased soil salinity and decreasing fertility does not go out for that method of harvest and fertilization is human practices have an impact Mlhod in the growing phenomenon of salting or salinity virtue is deliberate and calculated use of the stocks of resources, water and groundwater, including a negative impact on the fertility of the land and the expansion of drought .
It showed that intensifies the risk of desertification is associated with the growing problem of water and Tofid available statistics that 90 percent of Iraqi territory suffer from desertification in Iraq and caused the loss per year for 100 000 acres of its land arable and out of agricultural production department, including pushing for the migration of farmers from Aradhm, pointing out that the phenomenon of salinization concentrated 50 percent of them in farmland inherited due to the negligence of the irrigation sectors as well as ease the marshes and the equivalent of 90 percent of its area, especially it represents a wider area of water in the ecosystem in the Middle East.
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