اسم المؤلف:
زاهد قاسم بدن الساعدي
اسم المشرف:
عبد الرزاق يوسف نصر الله
المستخلص:
The agricultural sector is regarded one of the important productive sector in the developing and powerful countries. Its importance lies in the fact that agriculture is the main source of food stuff and it is One of the important sources to get incomes and jobs for a large proportion the population. There is a strong mutual relationship between industry and agriculture which provide raw material for Together with this is a domestic manufactures. large rate of the domestic industrial production lonsued by rural people.The agricultural sector is regarded a source for getting foreign currencies through exporting the spare agricultural goods abroad The agricultural sector in Iraq is characterized by the availability of land , water and human resources.Land resources ; it mean the total areas of land that are good for cultivation agriculture and to be used as a productive resource in the economic activity , the total area reaches ( 181,6) million of which (48) million are good for planting , this indicates the widepotentials of the vertical and horizontal expansion in agriculture in case all the appropriate and objective procedures are taken. As for mater resources which are rain and river water , then comes the lender ground water.As for Basrah , it has big agricultural potentials as good for planting areas reach (950,000) , besides water is available via Tigris and Euphrates as well as marshes water in Al - Huwaiza, ALHammar , mid - marshes and shatt - el - Arab , Also, the underground waters in AL - Zubair , Safuan, AL - Birjissiya and other areas in the province are available. There are large numbers of agricultural workers, and markets that are capable of consuming and exporting products in and out of the country.But it actually provide of agricultural crops for other provinces and abroad of the present , which indicates the presence of a drawback and shortage in manipulating these resources and potentials , consequently , this thesis sheds light on the available agriculture potentials in Basrah and the achieved production during ( 1990 - 2006 ) and the procedures taken to develop this reality in future.This thesis aims to determine and show the real available potentials for agricultural development and for increasing the efficiency of using the natural resources of the agricultural production in Basrah, it also aims to focus on the agricultural development crisis inBasrah and to make the agricultural sector an incentive power for the economic growth and defying challenges.This thesis adopt , the following hypothesis : The agricultural sector in Basrah suffers from negligence and weakness of the economic efficiency in manipulating the available agricultural potentials , which weakens it form covering the needs of the domestic in Basrah regarding food stuff during (1990 - 2006). To prove or disprove this hypothesis , this study has been divided in to four ehapters , the first chapter deals with the roles the agricultural sector in the Iraqi economy , this is done through four sections. The first section shows the roles the agricultural sector in making the total domestic production , the second is concerned with the above role in manipulating workers , whereas the third section explains the roles the agricultural sector in achieving the food security.The last one is concerned with studying this role in the foreign trade, The second chapter gives an analysis and a study of the agricultural resources and potentials in Basrah through three sections The first section deals with the agrarian lands and water resourcesin Basrah ,the second studies the working lands and the domestic markets regarding offers and demands in the province. the last section is concerned with studying the financial sources or the sources of provision Basrah agriculture during the study yearsThe third chapter deals with studying the agricultural production of some crops which Basrah produces during the study years. The first section studies dates production in the region of shatt - el - Arab the two regions of south Tigris and the marshes, the second dealswith studding to make crops and some vegetables in the western region. The last section studies wheat production in the two regions of south Tigris and the marshes. The study concludes with suggestions and conclusions by the researcher, the researcher deals with the analysis of the plant side in Basrah due to the shortage of data, information of the animal side and the stoppage of all station of breeding animals in Basrah as they were looted and destroyed. The researcher depends on two groups of sources , the first are the theoretical sources such as periodicals and theses ,etc.the second sources are field visits done by the researcher. these visits are to the formal of concern to the agricultural sector offices in Basrah. The aim of these visits is to get the necessary data and information to accomplish this study, also ,there are personal interviews with some of the agrarian officials, farmers and land owners by distributing forms to get enough information to be used as required
