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Iraq's farm land continues to dissapear to desert at a rapid rate inhibiting food production.


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The phenomenon of desertification is 92% and government plans are absent



 Baghdad / Fadia Al-Jawari 
 

Despite the series of measures taken by the Ministry of Agriculture to combat desertification, which amounted to about 92% and is still growing and swallowing large areas of agricultural land, which contributed environmental and technical conditions and water scarcity turned into land barren, despite the allocation of funds for agricultural initiatives,  


Ministry of Agriculture Spokesman Humaid Al-Nayef said that the Department of Combating Desertification has taken a series of measures to combat this environmental phenomenon, notably cooperation with international organizations through the planting of drought-resistant trees, as well as a special program to provide each farmer with a subsidized water Encouraging him to return a lot of land to the agricultural incubator. 
Al-Naif added that "desertification is not a local problem for Iraq alone, but many countries of the world suffer from this phenomenon in light of the climate change that has occurred in recent years." The 
spokesman stressed that the increase of desertification areas, Water from neighboring countries, which do not give Iraq its share of water equitably The 
 estimated proportion of Iraqi land subject to desertification is 92 percent of the total area allocated for agriculture in the country, according to official statistics, which endanger environmental life, in light of the high temperature and lack of green cover Palliative For 
her part, the economic expert Dr. Akram Abdul Aziz said that "there are many reasons for the phenomenon of decline of cultivated areas, including environmental, technical, administrative and external." 
Abdul Aziz added in a statement (to the extent) that "Iraq is facing the problem of desertification due to misuse of water, For the management of the file of water and agriculture, indicating that Iraq is facing the problem of desertification and salinity and agricultural pests and the aging of the methodology, pointing to the absence of technical guidance, which develops the agricultural side, noting that there is a national ambition is to enter Iraq into the so-called green economy, In terms of telu W, desertification and others. 
Abdul Aziz pointed to the need for cooperation among agricultural communities to create cooperation and definition of farmers and farms type of agricultural diseases that affect the plant and even animal diseases, indicating that there is a decline in the productivity of one hectare agricultural and significantly because the provinces producing Iraqi food basket has been subjected to terrorism and destruction, % Of agriculture. 
She pointed out that the funds of agricultural initiatives have been wasted most of them because of the lack of awareness of some of those who received the money from the farmers and has been disbursed in the doors of personal and non-productive to the Iraqi food basket, adding that there are shortcomings in the economic visions and lack of supervision and scrutiny and inspection of those who took the money, there is an ongoing loans and demand to allocate more money ratios in favor of those loans. " 
Abdul Aziz confirmed that Iraq is suffering from dumping commodity products vegetables and fruits , food basket in general, and thus the national product cost is higher than the price of ready - made of vegetables and fruits imported materials, these m It caused a loss to the farmer. " 
"The national government should strive for food security to apply the practical and scientific frameworks of the agricultural expertise of farmers and academics to develop the general strategy, plans and reforms to cooperate with all efforts to serve the next path," she added. Modern technology by making way with specialized foreign companies in cooperation with the national private sector, and therefore apply advanced agricultural projects and attract investment from other countries and contribute to the return of t National funds will migrant. " The Vice President of the Republic Iyad Allawi expressed earlier regret for the terrible decline in the area of cultivated land, which fell from 48 million acres to 12 million only, pointing out that the agricultural initiative funds go into pockets of spoilers. Allawi said in a tweet on his official page on Facebook, that the funds of agricultural initiatives are going to pockets of spoilers, "warning of the repercussions of the deterioration of agriculture on the food security of citizens and the sovereignty of the Iraqi decision. Allawi pointed out that the absence of the economic vision of the governments that followed his ministry has led to the deterioration of the agricultural reality and the overall economic situation, forcing Iraq, amid the financial crisis, to import more than 75% of its food needs and 91% of other commodities.

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