The most important factors affecting the investment allocations of the agricultural sector in Iraq for the period (2000-2022)

Abstract

     The agricultural sector is considered one of the most important economic sectors in the Iraqi economy, especially in terms of agricultural investment allocations. However, the Iraqi economy has little and limited support for agricultural investment allocations compared to other various sectors, which was generally reflected in the agricultural sector and its decline, as the study aimed to determine the amount of investment allocations allocated for the agricultural sector from public investment spending, and its impact on increasing growth rates in the agricultural sector; The study is based on the hypothesis that there is a causal relationship between investment allocations and increased growth rates in agricultural output, as the relationship becomes active and becomes significant and positive when the percentage of agricultural production’s contribution to the gross domestic product increases, which is one of the most important indicators of economic growth, which is a reason for increasing investment allocations to the sector. agricultural, and thus high growth rates in that sector and vice versa; The agricultural environment in Iraq suffers from challenges, including soil salinity, desertification, low water levels, a deficiency in qualified human resources, and low spending rates allocated to agricultural investment, with the widening gap between population growth and land allocated for agriculture. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model has been relied upon. The study reached many results, the most important of which was the moral impact of most of the variables of the model. As a result of these relationships that emerged through the standard analysis of the model, Iraq must adopt ways and methods to increase investment allocations and choose the best ways to distribute them and benefit from them in the agricultural sector.