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Reducing anti-nutritional factor and enhancing yield with advancing time of planting and zinc application in grasspea in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND
Grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.), an important pulse crop in food, feed and for sustainable crop production systems in Ethiopia. Despite its advantage on nutrition and adaptability to harsh climate and low fertile ...
Yield and Irrigation Water Productivity of Three Varieties of Buffel Grass (Cenchrus ciliaris L.) in the Southern Coastal Plains of Yemen
Small stakeholder farmers in southern coastal plains of Yemen as in other Arabian Peninsula countries are fanciers and suffering from shortage of forages mainly during winter season. This study was carried out during three ...
Implementing breeding programs for high- & low-input, spring and winter barley
The breeding program was implemented in four countries viz. Lebanon (Terbol & AUB), Morocco (Rabat, Jemma Shaim, Allal Tazi), India (Amlaha) and Mexico (Toluca/ Obregon) to fulfil the objectives. More than 1800 new crosses ...
تحليل اقتصادي لتبني تقنية الري بالتنقيط تحت السطحي في العراق
هدفت هذه الدراسة الى التعرف على العوامل المؤثرة في تبني تقنية الري تحت السطحي والتنبؤ بالمدة الزمنية التي تتطلبها التقنية للانتشار على مدى واسع من المزارعين، وذلك عند تطبيق هذه التقنية على مجموعة من مزارعي محصول الخيار في ...
Actual Evapotranspiration of irrigated areas in 2006
Evapotranspiration was determined using the methodology proposed by USGS’s Simplified Surface Energy Balance. The Actual Evapotranspiration (AET, mm) estimation was done using MODIS 1km (thermal infrared band resolution) ...
Agricultural Livelihoods of Syrian refugees in Jordan: current situation and opportunities ahead - Final Report
This study was conducted in four governorates of Jordan: Amman, Madaba, Irbid and Mafraq. These governorates of Northern Jordan were chosen based on the fact that IFAD previous investment focused on the South of the country. ...
Summarized review of the recent rangeland restoration policies and programs conducted in Jordanian Badia
This report summarizes the work done during 2017 to review the relevant policies, programs, and interventions implemented during the recent decades in Badia, as part of Activity A6.
High-yielding winter synthetic hexaploid wheats resistant to multiple diseases and pests
Development of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum) synthetics started at CIMMYT-Mexico in 2004, when winter durum wheat (Triticum turgidum) germplasm from Ukraine and Romania was crossed with Aegilops tauschii accessions from ...
SALINITY MANAGEMENT
Water is the major limiting factor of agricultural production in the dry areas of Central and
West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) regions. Agriculture accounts for around 80-90% of
freshwater consumption in the regions. ...
Map of irrigated areas in 2017
IWMI’s global irrigated and rainfed area maps (GIAM and GMRCA, Biradar et al., 2009, Thenkabail et al., 2009) have ben merge with released irrigated area maps accessible online; http://waterdata.iwmi.org/applications/irri_area/to ...