The cluster analysis of most important citrus trees in some governorates of Iraq for the year 2019

Abstract

Citrus fruits are one of the consumer agricultural products of the Iraqi citizen. It is rich in vitamins and used
in many food industries as well as medicines. Classifying the amount of production of citrus trees
according to the producing governorates has been done to find a map that shows the production of citrus
trees according to Iraqi governorates. A cluster analysis method was used according to the hierarchical
method. The results showed that Najaf and Qadisiyah are the most similar in citrus production, while
Saladin and Najaf were the two governorates with the furthest distance in proximity matrix. Diyala
governorate was clustered in the first cluster within two, three, four or five of the clusters for classifying
Iraqi governorates covered by the research into three groups according to the production of citrus including
the first group with the provinces of Najaf, Qadisiyah, Babil and Karbala, while annexation of the second
cluster provinces includes Diyala and Wasit. The third cluster has included the provinces of Baghdad and
Saladin. The lowest distance has been between the governorates of Najaf and Qadisiyah as compared with
the longest distance between the governorates of Saladin and Najaf.