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Baghdad - Mostafa Hashemi
Iraq relies years ago in the coverage of the internal market for agricultural products to import from neighboring countries, which began some see the repercussions, according to academic economist, it will be reflected in the import process, including, but agricultural initiative has contributed significantly to the activation of production agricultural and increase also contributed also developed with calculations of modern technologies in this field since reduced somewhat the rate of importation of certain fruits and vegetables.
saw the agricultural sector in Iraq in general, a marked deterioration in the years before the events of the change, the country had adopted which to fill its needs growing of vegetables and fruits import from neighboring countries.
In this context, he called academic economic d. Essam المحاويلي, to the need to adopt a local production of agricultural crops.
He noted المحاويلي in a statement to the (morning) to the importance of the provision of agricultural products because the scarcity would raise prices and hurt the interests of the citizen. He stressed that Iraq possessed Lands wide arable while others need to agricultural investments for the purpose of reclamation. Pointed المحاويلي that the adoption of modern techniques in irrigation would improve by agriculture, increase agricultural yields and crop diversification, productivity and industrial such as cotton, sesame, corn, soybeans and others.
And that Iraq could bridge the needs of agricultural imports from other neighboring countries are stable than others, such as Jordan and Kuwait. Pointing out that the best solution is to activate the agricultural sector and increasing government support to double the production of agricultural crops different rather than relying on imports to meet the market need., And Iraq has suffered greatly from low production agricultural what makes plugging the shortfall import from neighboring countries, which began experiencing unrest in the past the last, which requires him to find other countries an alternative to imports, including those crops and products in order to maintain the level of prices at home.
explained that it is through the agricultural initiative adopted by the government years ago, which enlivened the reality of agriculture in the country after he witnessed the deterioration noticeable. and began working with loans initiative Agricultural in the first of August 2008 as part of an initiative launched by the government to promote the agricultural sector, which hit back by previous policies. noted that the financial allocations for projects agricultural initiative for this year amounted to 63 billion and 100 million dinars distributed among agricultural projects are different for the deployment of new technologies and support the production of wheat and set up stores and agricultural development of olive cultivation and the establishment of modern laboratories for the analysis of soil, water, and early warning of drought. According to the website of the Ministry of Agriculture.
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