Geographical Analysis of the Industrial Investment in Salah Al-Deen Governorate for the period of 2016 – 2021

Abstract

Industrial investment has a great importance in the national and local economy, as it represents one of the tools that work on all the various production factors, and then finding industries that contribute to meet the needs of the people by exploiting raw materials and converting them to more useful and valuable products. That is why this study came to shed the light on this motivation in Salah Al-Deen Governorate for the period 2016-2021, which many researchers described as weak and low compared to other governorates, despite the governorate's possession of natural, human and economic potentials and elements that work to localize industrial investment in various fields of industry to get back the governorate to as it was before, because it was one of the industries centers in Iraq, especially in the districts of Baiji and Samarra. Attention was paid to the spatial distribution of industrial investment projects and according to the structure of industries. The study concluded that many industrial investment projects in the governorate reached to (116) industrial projects, including (10) industrial projects that registered in the investment department of the governorate, which represent 8.6% of the total (106) industrial projects through the industrial development, and the percentage of 91.4% of their total value. The number of workers in these projects reached to (1310) workers distributed over five industrial branches, including food, construction, chemical and textile. Among the recommendations is to raise economic policies to attract industrial investment in the governorate, while giving priority to industries whose raw materials are available in the governorate. In addition, the availability of an appropriate climate to support the private sector for its role in the industrial development process and the establishment of an industrial bank in the governorate that concerned with financing the industrial projects and their development with an increase in the allocated capital to projects and industrial development within the state’s general budget.