Iraq is losing 100,000 acres of agricultural territory annually

On: Sunday 09/01/2011 19:01

Network this day of News (HNN) - said the director of environmental control in the Iraqi Ministry of Environment, said on Sunday that Iraq is losing every year about 100 thousand acres of territory a result of agricultural deterioration of agricultural soils in the country over the past five years, indicating that about 90% of the area of Iraq suffer from soil erosion as a result of wind, storms and other climate changes taking place in the world, including Iraq.

 

Ibrahim al-Jawad al-Sharif on the sidelines of the meeting of the 11 team the Arab follow-up on international environmental agreements to combat desertification and biodiversity, which was held in Cairo, said that "the Iraqi delegation consisting of representatives of the Ministries of Environment and Water Resources and the Council of Ministers stressed the need to activate the resolutions of the meetings of Ministers of the Environment in the Arab countries and private environmental awareness programs in Iraq and to provide moral support and technical and capacity-building of self in the field of combating desertification. "

Sheriff explained that "Iraq is in dire need of this support is already suffering from the case of advanced desertification could lead to cases of large and alarming as a result of lack of water scarcity, dust storms and soil erosion and lack of rain and snow and other problems suffered by them and that where it needs to support the Arab countries."

And the Sheriff said "less areas desertified in Iraq is the northern areas in the Kurdistan region and then the central region, is that the south is more Iraqi areas desertified due to increased salinity in farmland." Adding that "the status of desertification led to the migration of peasants to urban areas and work in the city Agriculture and leave, causing a demographic change. "

Sharif said that "the meeting put forward recommendations adopted by the Council of Arab Environment Ministers at its last meeting and discuss possible measures to fight desertification in the Arab countries and reduce the rate of where the Arab world is more than the proportion of desertification among the countries of the world." Noting that "the most important reasons that led to increased desertification is a lack of awareness in land management techniques and work in the way of modern irrigation and processing of agricultural soils."

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