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Post-harvest Processing of Winter Crops in NW Syria
This paper summarizes some information on the post-harvest processing of wheat, barley, lentil, vetch, and chickpea in NW Syria. The information was collected during 1978 from 43 interviews in 21 villages in Aleppo Province. ...
Preliminary Agronomic Studies on Wheat and Barley in the 1977-78 Season
The effect of seed rate, row spacing, and sowing date on six cereal varieties (two durum wheat, two bread wheat, and two barley) was studied at Tel Hadya, both under rainfed conditions and with one supplementary irrigation. ...
Planting Methods for Winter Crops in NW Syria
This paper reviews the planting methods used for winter crops in northwest Syria. The information presented and discussed was collected from interviews in NW Syrian villages and from discussions with Government officials ...
Farmers’ Perceptions of Water Policies: A Case Study from the Jordanian Badia
This report reviews a case study of farmers’ perceptions of policies and regulations to improve water security in the Jordanian Badia. The aim is to improve water management and conservation by engaging all stakeholders, ...
Factors Influencing Farmers’ Decisions to Adopt Improved Technologies in Semi-Arid Farming Systems: A case study of the barley variety Kounouz and feed blocks technology in Tunisia
Despite the high potential of innovative agricultural technologies to boost productivity, incomes, and food security for farmers, the adoption rate by smallholders in Tunisia’s livestock-barley systems is very slow. This ...
Augmented Designs for International Yield Trials
The international yield trial program at ICARDA involves screening a large number of new varieties at a large number of locations around the world. In the past, these trials consisted of a single rows of the new varieties ...
Environmental Variability and Multiple Site-Multiple Season Trials
The rainfed regions that ICARDA operates in are characterized by high levels of environmental variability. This variability is observed temporally and spatially in climatic conditions and also, spatially, in soils and other ...
The Effect of Fertilizer Use on the Variability of Barley Yields in Dry Areas
This paper attempts to measure the effect of fertilizer use (N and P) on the variability of barley yields in dry areas. Two sets of data are utilized to measure the variability of yields. These data come from multiple ...
Livestock-Crop Interactions: The case of Green Stage Barley Grazing
Immature barley crops are frequently grazed by sheep in the winter months then left to mature for grain harvest. ICARDA is conducting research on several aspects of this phenomenon, including breeding efforts to produce ...
Livestock-Crop Interactions: The Decision to Harvest or to Graze Mature Grain Crops
Farmers in the driest areas of the ICARDA region frequently face the question of whether to harvest or graze mature grain crops, particularly barley. Farmers persist in cultivating barley under poor and highly variable ...