Reclamation of Agricultural Land and Its Impact on Exports and the Number of Workers in the Agricultural Sector in Jordan

Abstract

The study dealt with the plant production and agricultural areas in Jordan and its impact on unemployment rates and exports during the period (2011-2015), the problem of the study lies on non-agricultural land use with scarcity, where it constitute 10% of the area of Jordan and although it is few but only 30% of the fertile land is actually used which affect the agricultural sector's contribution to GDP and its role in employment in this sector, which suffers from high levels of unemployment as the exhibitors' workers are increasing continuously or seasonally in the labor market in the agricultural sector. The study compared the acreages with the numbers of employers in it and the ratio of unemployment during the study period; it also compared the acreages and the exports during the study period and created regression equation to estimate these relationships through statistical analysis for this study.One of the most important productions to increase acreages of fertile land, or reclamation of invalid land increases the production of exports and increases the creation of new job opportunities in the agricultural sector and the study recommended supporting the agricultural sector for agricultural reclamation from the government directly.

Keywords: Plant Production, Agricultural reclamation, Employees, Exports