واقع زراعة أشجار النخيل في محافظة البصرة (1950-2016)‎

Abstract EN

City of AL-Basra has two economic source, they considers the main substrate to the import of national income (petrol, agriculture).

For the agriculture is considered with palm trees the inexhaustible source as it contribute in supporting the Iraqi economic in a relative way, and provide food for all people, because providing food enhance the security food which is being sensitive case face all the country of the world Iraq, and in particularly AL- Basra.

City of Basra was suffered particularly from a big deterioration in the numbers of palm trees, this result from the political factors nature, the Iraqi – Iranian war and the first and second war the main reason of exhaustion of palm orchard.

This is being related to the peasant migration from their lands and the lack of interest of their orchards beside that dredging a lot of these lands by government as well as the population dredging after (2003)which contributed in decreasing the numbers of palms.

The current study aims to compare it to see the nature of the decline in palm numbers and their causes.