Minister of Planning: the agricultural sector of the promising sectors in Iraq, which should benefit from the best possible image

Wed Jul 29 2015 3:31 p.m. | (Voice of Iraq) - Baghdad and the Ministry of Planning held its first conference for agricultural planning in Iraq under the slogan about agricultural planning optimal for agricultural Nhzh, comes the conference in an effort to activate the development sectors in Iraq and qualify to be supportive of the national economy in the presence of the ministers of planning and agriculture as well as the number for agents and representatives of the ministries and provinces as well as the group of researchers and specialists in the matter concerned, the number of employees of the ministry and relevant authorities .othdt Mr. Minister of Planning Dr. Salman al-Jumaili during the conference in a speech, saying that holding the first agricultural conference by the Ministry In these tough economic conditions and challenges experienced by our country Iraq but came for the purpose of payment of the contribution of this sector to effectively increase the gross domestic product and advance the country forward, adding that the agricultural sector is one of the important sectors of the Iraqi economy to the advantage of its overall issues draws us to provide support necessary for the advancement of him and explained that the agricultural sector is characterized by being of Alqtaat promising in Iraq to capacity tracts of arable land and that that can be incorporated into production and Alastvad them less cost possible also contributes to the agricultural sector in achieving food security and has a direct relationship in the life of the citizen, especially as it is attractive Aalqtaat labor if of its employees 20% of the total Iraqi hands labor minister said the agricultural sector projects largely with other sectors link because there is a lot of entanglements front and rear of the sector with other sectors, indicating that support the agricultural sector will run a lot of these sectors especially manufacturing .oabbar hope that this conference will be a new starting point in the development of promising agricultural policies that lead to the advancement of a comprehensive agricultural sector. For his part, Minister of Agriculture Mr. Falah Hassan Zeidan that food security is one of the most important national and global challenges as a result of population growth and rising living standards in addition to the decline in production and productivity of plants and animals alike, he is suffering our country from a crisis in water Aiardth which Tamtd class basis to neighboring countries which reflected negatively on the reality of the agricultural sector and pointed out that the Ministry of Agriculture has prepared a major plans to meet the challenges facing the agricultural sector in Iraq in order to achieve food security and meet the needs of citizens through increased agricultural production for a range of strategic crops. From his part, Minister of Water Resources Engineer Mohsen al-Shammari speech on behalf of the Director of Planning in the Ministry of Water Resources Mr. Jamal Mohammed that agriculture in Iraq still occupies an important aspect of economic and social development as it works in this sector up to 20 |% of the population, adding that agriculture is the second largest contributor to GDP after oil production and pointed out Iraq has all the elements of a comprehensive agricultural renaissance which is arable land and water needed in addition to the labor and capital, and all what is required to achieve the desired renaissance through the sincere will of players and management that employs all these elements to achieve the desired objectives. He continued: Achieving goals requires a well-defined plan to assess current reality and the former and identify obstacles to the development of this sector in previous years to take advantage of them and starting to hard work beyond those obstacles and address scientific and the will of the methods and conscious, honest and togetherness of all workers in this sector through the planners and technicians as well as engineers and farmers and peasants as well as all other levels working in the agricultural sector, the To the piece president of the Federation of agricultural associations in Iraq, Sheikh Hassan al-Tamimi said that the agricultural situation became moving towards or curve is very serious as a result of the lack of a clear vision for the agricultural sector and the lack of track for the agricultural sector because of the failure to approve laws which belong to the agricultural sector by the Iraqi parliament, noting that the Colossus may be solidarity of the legislative and the executive branch in the Iraqi government as it is the responsibility of all ministries, especially the developed its staff put the right plans in the agricultural sector. Wishing that the Ministry of Water Resources to be accurate in their work when you speak about reform projects because you have to give the true image of the reclamation process and the process of implementation of the projects.


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