Iraq was one of the first countries to use agriculture thousands of years ago due to the emergence of advanced civilizations that found a huge abundance of water and other resources in Mesopotamia or Mesopotamia.
The exchange of agricultural techniques that were passed down through generations has not completely stopped, despite the wars and colonialism that befell Iraq, but the development of these techniques has certainly stopped, especially at the present time with the presence of climate change and the massive pollution that has struck Iraq.
We are talking here about political systems that contributed to the destruction of the agricultural sector because of their policies. In the last 70 years, Iraq has been subjected to several wars and an economic blockade, and finally it ended with a tyrannical ruling authority that was not at all concerned with the situation of the farmer or the agricultural situation.
As farmers spoke in previous meetings about the lack of water, the spread of diseases, the phenomenon of desertification, and the bad government role in imports, we notice that the problems are increasing and there are no solutions to them. Toxic agricultural chemicals have spread in Baghdad’s commercial stores, for example, and they have become available to everyone without any restrictions on their import. Or manufacture or sell it.
This phenomenon has resulted in the existence of bad food, devoid of strange taste and beautiful appearance, devoid of benefits and causing many carcinogenic diseases.
The problem was not only reflected on the citizen consuming food, but rather on the farmer. The farmer has now become obligated and dependent on these materials because insects have become accustomed to these materials and have developed immunity to them. The crops cannot grow without them and insects do not die without them. Thus, trade has become restricted and dependent between the farmer and the merchants.
Iraq had agricultural production programs that relied on a natural biological system that was 100 percent free of chemicals. It was carrying out this production in cooperation with the country of Cuba in Genoa America due to their progress in this field. It was developing many treatments that relied on harmless and natural materials that had a strong effect on insects.
Iraq also had strict laws and many restrictions on the import of chemicals related to the agricultural sector, and restrictions on who can buy them, where they are sold, etc., but the current government has chaotically opened the door to all these companies and abolished all laws and restrictions, and the matter has become just chaos.
Today, in our neighborhood, we are trying to explain the sectarian role that the government played in changing the agricultural identity of our neighborhood and how it caused all this change that affected our health as citizens and our farmers as farmers, while finding other alternatives that protect us from the evil that has befallen us.