The Spatial Analysis of Agricultural Investment Systems in Eastern Iraq

Abstract

The agricultural system is a process of classifying agricultural phenomena that share natural and human facts within spatial units represented by administrative units, here represented by districts representing the study area in Eastern Iraq. Standardized grade maps show the spatial distribution nature of agricultural investment and land ownership systems, which depend on their proximity to the mean of the different areas of the study districts and their standard deviation. This is shown on a map displaying the degree of distance and proximity from the zero value in either positive or negative direction. The principal component analysis method is then employed to measure the characteristics of agricultural investment in the study area using a factor branch matrix, which revealed five agricultural structure factors explaining the total variance of the variables. The study concludes with findings.