The use of symmetric analysis in the study of the concentration of citrus production in Iraq

Abstract

Citrus is one of the important and necessary foods in the Iraqi consumer basket because of its many benefits on human health, but its production at the present time does not meet the needs of the Iraqi market, where this shortage in citrus productivity is compensated by importing from neighboring countries, so we will focus in this research on A study of the prevalence of citrus productivity and its concentration in the Iraqi provinces known for citrus cultivation, including (Diyala, Baghdad, Babylon, Karbala, Salah al-Din, Wasit, Najaf, and Qadisiyah) and according to five citrus varieties (orange, sour lemon, sweet lemon, lalanki, bitter orange). Using Correspondence Analysis.

It was concluded that the governorates that contribute the most to citrus production in Iraq are Baghdad and Salah al-Din, followed by the Wasit governorate. The most productive varieties in Iraq are oranges and bitter oranges, followed by lemons, then lalanki.