ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY STUDY OF THE PROJECT OF IMMOBILIZATION OF SANDY DUNES IN BABYLONPROVINCE IN IRAQ.

Desertification this scourge that threatens the whole world, especially Africa and dry and semi-arid areas in Asia and the Americas, In Africa were victims of drought and desertification in Somalia in 2012onlya quarter of a million victims of men, women and children, The United Nations estimates that desertification costs accounted for half of the costs that the world loses from the annual production for the whole world, so it has to be effective and pause to stop this scourge, which came on everything and everybody. This study was conducted in the Babylon province, located between longitudes 43? 42? - 45? 50? east and latitudes 32? 7? -33º 8? north on the sand dunes area which is located towards the east of the province of Was it province ,these dunes formed by more than 50 years ago and remained in a state of constant motion without taking any previous procedures, the idea, as processed the first time the year 2014 was the preparation of this study to demonstrate the role of the control and treatment of area 913 square kilometers of these dunes in scattered areas. The results showed that the soil analyzes of tissues soil of the area is alluvial loamy with the proportion of medium salinity and tissues sand dunes loamy,Using visuals satellite Land sat 7 for the years 2001, in 2006, Land Sat 8 2014 and Quick bird 2012 afternoon that there are eleven site for these dunes , the degree of desertification of the region, according to the world rankings is the kind of moderate and desertification in which the production at least 10%-15% , and that can be controlled at the present time using windbreaks through the use of resistant varieties environmental and climatic conditionsas well as the use of spray-axial and fixed irrigation systems also cultivate various crops of wheat, barley, corn and other , this could prove to be effective both fenders crops or whether there was a follow-up, maintenance and continuing to work for a period of not less than ten years.