ANBAR JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of the government intervention on the potato crop in Al-Anbar governorate in Falluja district, An applied model knowledge to show the competitiveness and relative advantage in producing this crop through quantitative analysis of the distortions between input and output prices facing the local product using a series of matrix- Analysis of Policy (PAM) The study reached a number of conclusions, the most important of which is that Al-Anbar province has a comparative advantage in production and is highly efficient when using local resources. The domestic resource cost factor (DRC) is 0.23, (EPC) of 0.71 indicates that domestic producers receive lower returns than social returns, and this explains the absence of government support for crop production. The study recommended a number of recommendations, the most important of which is land reclamation, expansion of potato crop cultivation, encouraging investors to establish potato-cooling warehouses, and developing plans to activate and increase the role of the government subsidy policy for local products.