Food Gap in Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Sherwan Jalil AhmedM.Sc. In Agricultural Economics

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Introduction:

While the need for food increased by %5

And In Kurdistan Region has Food Gap

The food gap: what is produced by self-State and what you need from food commodities to satisfy the needs of the people of the consumption of food commodities, which are secured to import from abroad

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Food Gap in Kurdistan Region (2012)

Type of Product Ratio of food gap

Wheat 24.67Barley 11.71

Rice 97.38Tomato 53.96Potato 40.30

Legumes 70.62Fruits 68.23

Vegetables 54.27Red Meat 61.27

White Meat 29.18Fish 54.47

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The causes of the food gap in the Kurdistan region:

1.Demographic and political causes (Population & Migration)

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2. Natural causes

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3. Abnormal causes

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4 Financial causes

(1.62 %) in Budget of Kurdistan Region

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First: The role of agricultural development in the development of food products:

1.Rural development and Treat the rural poverty.

The Treatment & Reform of the food gap in the Kurdistan region:

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2. Investments & allocate big part of Budget to invest in the agricultural sector and food.

3. More efficient use of water resources and developing it.

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4. Use of modern technologies in agriculture Production.

5. Developing of transportation in rural areas.

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6. Agricultural pest control.

7. Livestock Development.

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8. Increased governments Subsidy & loans for food products.

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Second: The role of agricultural development to fill the food gap in the Kurdistan region:

1.The development of local food and agricultural products.

2.Food import substitution policy.

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3. The development of the food industry.

4. Storage & inventory developing .

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1.Marketing of food products.

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1. FAO Coordination Office For Northern Iraq, Annual Statistical bulletin, Agricultural statistics Unit, Erbil, Iraq, 2004.

2. The ministry of agricultural and water resources, The Road Map For Achieving Food and Water Sufficiency and Security in the Region of Kurdistan-Iraq, Erbil, Iraq, 2012.

3. The ministry of agricultural and water resources, Baseline Survey Report, Erbil, Iraq, 2014.

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