التحليل المكاني لصناعة الخشب والأثاث في محافظة بابل وآفاقها المستقبلية

Spatial analysis of the wood and furniture industry in Babil Governorate and its future prospects

Abstract

The wood and furniture industry is one of the branches of the manufacturing industries, which highlights its importance at the level of Iraq in general and Babil Governorate in particular. Because of its large and important role in the national economy and its enhancement of national income, in addition to its importance in attracting large numbers of the workforce, the study focused on its objectives and methodology used in studying the reality of the wood and furniture industry. Its future prospects, as the industry consists of several branches, including (furniture manufacturing, doors and frames manufacturing, sofa manufacturing, picture frames manufacturing) in Babil Governorate. And that the study problem was When did the wood and furniture industry originate in Babil Governorate? Do industrial stability factors have a role in establishing the wood and furniture industry in Babil Governorate? What are the criteria for the geographical distribution of the wood and furniture industry in Babil Governorate? What are the main problems faced by the wood and furniture industry? In Babil Governorate, what is the reality of the wood and furniture industry in Babil Governorate and its future prospects? As for the hypothesis of the study, it was stated that the history of wood and furniture industry in Babel Governorate dates back to the beginning of the twentieth century, when special markets for carpenters appeared. There is a large and clear role for geographical factors that affected the geographical distribution of the wood and furniture industry in Babil Governorate, and among these factors (natural factors, human factors) there are several criteria for the geographical distribution of the wood and furniture industry in Babil Governorate and among these criteria (number of factories, number of workers, Capital, machinery costs, land area, building area, wage value), Among the most prominent problems facing the wood and furniture industry in Babil Governorate mainly is the problem of production or dependence on importing raw materials, the problem of power outages, the problem of flooding the market with imported goods, the problem of environmental pollution caused by the manufacture of wood and furniture, the problem of high rental value, and the problem of residential interference It is random, and that the reality of the wood and furniture industry in Babil Governorate has emerged in light of the research and investigation. There are several

B industrial branches as follows (furniture industry, doors and frames manufacturing, sofa manufacturing, picture frames and mirrors manufacturing) and that all primary materials and main and secondary machinery used in the industry are imported from outside Iraq, As for the future prospects for the wood and furniture industry in the study area, they are represented by four axes identified by the researcher in light of the reliance on the on-site components (location, water, energy, and transportation methods). In Babil Governorate (the study area) there are (218) factories for the year (2018) according to the random sample distributed in four districts (Hilla district, Al-Hashimiyah district, Al-Mahawil district, and Al-Musayyib district), distributed into (16) administrative units, all of which belong to the private sector , As the number of manpower was (933) workers, and the invested capital amounted to (2305) billion Iraqi dinars, and the cost of machines (machines) reached (1215) billion Iraqi dinars, while the land area amounted to (21443) square meters, and the building area amounted to (18418) (M2), and the value of wages amounted to (3325000) million Iraqi dinars, as the furniture industry ranks first among the branches of the wood and furniture industry in Babil Governorate, and the door and frame manufacturing branch occupies the second place, and the sofa industry branch ranked third The picture frame and mirror industry branch ranked fourth, which means that there is a tendency to benefit from the wood and furniture industry that lasts for a long period of time and the possibility of competing with alternatives. The researcher identified four main axes in the province of Babylon, the first axis is the northern axis (Hilla – Baghdad), the second axis is the western axis (Hilla – Karbala), the third axis is the southwest axis (Hilla – Najaf), while the fourth axis is the north-eastern and southern axis The eastern (Hilla – Wasit) and (Hilla – Diwaniyah), where these axes represent the basis for the future growth, development, and signature of the wood and furniture industry, due to its appropriate geographical (spatial) qualifications, as the wood and furniture industry has found environmentally polluting industries in Babil Governorate, Which calls for attention and treatment in the future, and From industries that have a direct damage to the health of workers from the use of chemicals is (paints, dyes, pastes) which cause excessive sensitivity to the nose and other diseases affecting the workers.