Research article

RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ITS EFFECT ON THE LEVEL OF FAMILY INCOME, THE COUNTRYSIDE OF AL-MUWAFAQIAH SUB-DISTRICT AS A MODEL IN IRAQ

Ali Hussein Muhammed Al-Janabi and Mohammed Dhahir Latif

Online First: December 21, 2022


The rural development process is one of the important priorities of rural communities that seek development and progress, and the importance of this relationship lies in its effective role in reducing the continuing gap between them. Nature of these relations has an effect on the distribution of the population and the level of culture and production in proportion to the type of policies followed. The current study aims to investigate the effects of urbanization on the rural families size, educational and academic level, economic level, and the amount of monthly income, depending on a field study sample of (200) families of rural families residing in the villages of Al-Muwafaqiah district in Wasit city, Iraq Governorate. The current study concluded that the social and economic aspect of the population of the study area was affected by the development policy, relationship with the nearby urban areas. This was demonstrated by high rates of educational attainment for secondary and university education (10.5%) for each. It was also note that there is a diversity in the sources of monthly income. although, agriculture represents the largest percentage of income sources for the people (74.5%), but It was found that the sources of government jobs began to rise, to reach (22.5%) with registration of some other sources, and an increase in the level of monthly income of the residents of the study area.

Keywords

rural development, income level, agriculture, Muwafaqiah district