Climate and its Impact on Cultivating Industrial Crops in Najaf Governorate

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the state of the climate and its impact on the cultivation of industrial crops in the governorate of Najaf and to uncover the suitable areas for their cultivation, the medium areas and the areas not suitable for that. The study shows the effect of the climatic characteristics in the study area with finding a relationship between the necessary climatic requirements for the studied crops and the climatic characteristics, as well as determining the climatic suitability of the industrial crops in Najaf Governorate. The study clarified the climatic requirements for each of the industrial crops under study, including high, low, and optimum temperatures, light requirements, humidity and rain requirements, and wind requirements. Climatic characteristics were determined in the study area, such as solar radiation, temperatures, winds, atmospheric pressure, humidity, rain and evaporation.

The results showed the effect of climate on industrial crops in the study area by assessing the suitability of the theoretical and actual brightness hours for cultivating industrial crops in the study area. The hours of theoretical brightness are of excellent degree of fitness as for hours of actual brightness of degree of average fitness. As for the sesame crop in hours of theoretical brightness with a degree of average suitability, as for the hours of actual brightness with a degree of excellent fit, as for the flax crop in hours of theoretical brightness with a degree of average suitability, as for the hours of actual brightness of an inappropriate degree.