Abstract
Abstract The agricultural economic situations in Arab countries are growing slowly, there are several problems facing them, in addition to the challenges and wasted opportunities. Hence, the decision makers in this sector should set up robust strategies to use the opportunities in agriculture almost in direct foreign investments and to develop the agricultural situations. This sort of investments has been attracted by many Arab countries as an indicator to open world economy. The value of this research has come from the broad interest in agricultural investments and the effect on the economic growth rates in general and on agriculture in specific. The research also aims to measure and analyze the impact of agricultural investments on the growth rates in agricultural sector of many Arab countries in order to specify the efficacy of investments in the mentioned aims. The research hypothesized that the direct foreign investments may be affected by the economic and non-economic situations occurred in Arab countries. The various effects have been identified in terms of the economic climate of the countries under study. The problem of the research has seen that there are no suitable strategies to adapt with the growth in the foreign markets, in addition to the non sufficiency of the required conditions to the sample countries to include such type of investment. Using statistical analysis, it concluded that the amount of direct foreign investment is one of the major variables in the agricultural production. .
