Farming and Musaqat contracts as means of reviving abandoned agricultural lands*

Abstract(Keywords: immigration, sharecropping, labor force, products, export)The migration of labor, which had a fundamental and effective role in providing agricultural products in the countryside to the cities, caused an imbalance between demand and supply for these products in Iraqi markets, which resulted in Iraq becoming one of the countries that imports these products after it had previously exported them. This migration also left agricultural lands, which led to the Iraqi economy being severely damaged in addition to the spread of unemployment in the cities.There is a need to address this matter through the sharecropping and sharecropping contracts, and encourage the owners of these lands to adopt them so that this initiative results in raising the level of agricultural production and reaching self-sufficiency and the export stage. Providing thousands of job opportunities to work on these farms, in addition to providing hard currency for the country.