Privatization of Agricultural Sector in Iraq | ||||
| Sinai Journal of Applied Sciences | ||||
| Volume 2, Int. Conf. 2013, April 2013, Page 231-260 PDF (312.93 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Researches | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/sinjas.2013.301177 | ||||
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| Abstract | ||||
| This research aims to highlight the policy shift from the public sector to the private sector or what is known as privatization. This research to identify the nature of these transformations in the agricultural sector during the previous phase and gives us possible idea through the new phase current. Iraqi government privatized the agricultural sector without orders and instructions of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The government's decision was due to the Iran-Iraq war and the impact of negative effects economically, but the government enacted laws facilitated important new shift. Another reason Iraq is faced economic blockade destruction as a result of its invasion of Kuwait in 1991, but the government increased bank loans to the private sector significantly to help increase agricultural production. The Ministry of Agriculture raised the value of cereal products gradually for the purpose of expanding the area of arable land and encouraged the private sector to import agricultural inputs of plant and animal. In 2003 America invaded Iraq and destroyed all economic foundation and in particular electricity and challenges have emerged for the agricultural sector, some natural drought and some political control of Turkey and Iran of Tigris and Euphrates rivers and their tributaries. The Iraqi government issued a new investment law and the law of the agricultural initiative that has led to increased production of grain, meat, eggs and vegetables. And finally you must define the responsibility of managing the agricultural sector and supervision of the following: Land reclamation, research and development, agricultural extension, biocontrol, and biosecurity are the responsibility of the public sector (government), Cultivation of wheat, barley, maize, cotton, dates, poultry , eggs, livestock and milk production are the responsibility of the private sector, The remaining electricity , loans, environmental pollution, and import production requirements are the responsibility of the public sector and private sectors together. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Privatization; Agricultural Sector; Iraq | ||||
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