University of Misan holds a workshop on the agricultural reality in Iraq and ways to promote and develop it . The college of Agriculture at the University of Misan held a workshop on the agricultural reality in Iraq and ways to promote it and its development with the participation of a number of employees of the irrigation, environment and agriculture departments in Misan governorate. The workshop included a lecture delivered by Assistant Professor Dr. Ismail Ibrahim Al-Yasiri, He pointed to the accumulated neglect of agriculture in Iraq and the low level of agricultural performance and the failure to meet the agricultural needs of the country’s agricultural products and explained the reasons that led to the decline and deterioration of agriculture in Iraq in detail, including the causes of The most important of which is the instability of the agricultural policy in Iraq. The workshop tackled the most important means of dealing with the problems of agricultural reality and many proposals to improve the agricultural reality (it will be sent to the concerned authorities), stressing that Iraq can restore life to agriculture and achieve self-sufficiency and food security, And in the end the workshop recommended to confirm agricultural investment with special specifications for projects established by international companies and funded by the state and then offered to invest Of the private sector under specific terms of operation and production, as well as support for farmers and farmers for a period of 10 years starting at 100% and decreasing thereafter by 10% per annum to reach an agreed rate of 25 or 50%. Also included in the contracts of oil companies are agricultural projects such as land reclamation, irrigation, Research centers, important laboratories, etc., as well as several other proposals to address the water crisis, desertification and others
