How Possible to Build Rice–Fish Farming in Iraq in order to Support Food Security Plan: Positive and the Negative Aspects

Abstract

Growing rice as only product in the field cannot offer a maintainable food source devoid of a cost to long-term habitat durability. Alternatively, combined rice–fish farming has shown to play a vital part in growing food yield as the joined farming system is better than culturing rice alone in terms of resource utilization, variety, yield, and both the quality and quantity of the food produced. Integrated rice–fish rearing too provides various socioeconomic and habitat benefits. In Iraq, unified rice–fish farming has not been introduced and government should develop such program to learn lesson from other countries who tried it before such as Bangladesh. Many studies have shown that combined rice–fish culturing can aid any country keeping speed with the current request for food through rice and fish yield but entails larger reassurance if it is to understand its full prospective.

As with any other project, there are a number of factors that influencing the adoption of the project. In case of the integrated rice–fish farming, the socioeconomic issues such as family size, number of associates with an extension agent, participation in extension-education activities, membership in social institutes, and the existence of farmworkers were the most imperative agents for the acceptance of rice–fish farming system.

Iraq has the potentials to develop the united rice–fish farming correctly if all the mistakes that other countries fall in are avoided. There are plenty of water resources in Iraq, fields of rice farming, and high possibility of obtaining fingerlings. In addition, Iraq has over 20 universities that graduate hundreds of scholars in different aspects of environmental science and fisheries who can educate the farmers about the integrated rice–fish farming. With such aim, Iraq easily can secure food for future generations.