Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 18 ISSUE 1
Written by Hussein Ali Hussein AL-QAESI, Abdulmuttaleb Abbas SALIH

Agriculture in Iraq has gone through many changes in the last decade, its revival has constituted a very important subject for debates. Agriculture is still an important sector since the agricultural sector does provide an opportunity for Iraq to improve the country’s economy, and more critically, to increase the resilience of conflict affected rural populations, by increasing their productivity. The focus of this study is on the main crops of Iraq that are very instable in terms of surface and production, affecting also the prices and producers 'confidence. A review of the cultivated crops, total and average productions was made for the period 2000-2014, with the help of the main statistical indicators that analyze the evolution, variation and growth. This study is divided into an introductory section, research methods, results and discussion in which data are interpreted, and end with the conclusions and recommendations.

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