Food Oils Manufacture Spatial Factors in Babylon Governorate

Abstract

The food oil industry is represented by the extraction and refining of raw oil from plant origins such as sesame, sunflower, soybeans, cotton, field pistachios, etc., and other animal sources such as milk fat. This industry represents a branch of the food industries affiliated with the manufacturing industries that produce oil. Oil is known as a carbohydrate-rich foodstuff that, when consumed, gives great energy to humans. The number of establishments  in Babylon governorate is (62) industrial establishments for food oils, but their production of food oils is concentrated in the Hashemite district of the study area due to the presence of large scale industries such as (Al-Ittihad Oil Refining Factory, Al-Rayyan Food Oil Extraction Factory), which has a production quantity of (1,168,000) tons of oil in 2022, while the number of workers in this industry is (1,854) workers, and 89.3% of them are concentrated in the Hashemite district due to the presence of large scale industries. Thus, the food oil industry has achieved great economic progress in terms of production and the number of workers is not at the level of Babylon governorate but covering the entire cities of Iraq.