Iraq’s Agriculture: Background and Status
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Iraq’s agricultural sector represents a small, but vital component of Iraq’s economy. Over the past several decades agriculture’s role in the economy has been heavily influenced by Iraq’s involvement in military conflicts, particularly the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War and the 1991 Gulf War, and by varying degrees of government efforts to promote and/or control agricultural production. In the mid-1980s, agriculture accounted for only about 14 percent of the national GDP. After the imposition of U.N. sanctions and the Iraqi government’s non-compliance with a proposed U.N. Oil-for-Food program in 1991, agriculture’s share of GDP is estimated to have risen to 35 percent by 1992.
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