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Long-term Impact of Cultivation on Soil Properties in the hilly olive orchards of NW-Syria
In NW-Syria, recent agricultural history shows that olive cultivation has expanded rapidly into marginal areas, including fragile mountain lands. Traditional land husbandry practices have not kept pace with the intensification ...
A GIS-based Approach for Assessing Water Harvesting Suitability in a Badia Benchmark Watershed in Jordan
In arid and semi-arid areas water harvesting techniques can be used to capture and efficiently utilize rainwater runoff to maintain productive and sustainable agro-pastoral systems. With water resources being depleted by ...
CAC News No 28. April-June 2006
News from CGIAR Collaborative Research Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC) covering the countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, ...
Broomrape control in faba bean (Vicia faba L.) with glyphosate and imazaquin
Field studies were carried out to evaluate the efficacy of imazaquin and glyphosate in controlling broomrape (Orobanche crenata Forsk. and O. aegyptiaca Pers.) in faba bean (Vicia faba L.) in Northern Syria. Several rates ...
برنامج التعاون العلمي المشترك - التقرير السنوي 2004-2005
يعرض هذا التقرير خلاصة عن نتائج التعاون العلمي المشترك بين وزارة الزراعة والإصلاح الزراعي وإيكاردا لموسم 2004-2005 في مختلف المجالات ، ولا سيما اختبار الأصول الوراثية الجديدة تحت الظروف البيئية المختلفة من سورية لمحاصيل ...
Farmers’ Decision Making Process for Innovations in Soil Conservation
The aim of this paper is to contribute to a more holistic understanding of farmers’ decision making process for innovations in soil conservation. In this study, farmers’ decision making has been explored in the context of ...
Performance and Variability of Local Barley Landraces in Near-Eastern Environments
Homozygous lines from six Syrian and two Jordanian landrace populations were tested under highly productive growing conditions in Tel Hadia (1982/83), under drought stress in Breda (1983/84), and under dryland salinity ...
Selection and Characterization of Badia Watershed Research Sites
This report describes the use of improved methodologies developed for identifying water-harvesting sites. It also provides general guidelines for determining site potential in relation to various parameters. The approach ...
Identifying major causes for gully erosion in sloping olive orchards by field mapping
In the Mediterranean mountain areas of NW Syria, land degradation is a serious problem (Masri et al, 2005). Olive orchards dominate the landscape in Afrin area, and olive oil represents the most important cash income source ...
Diversity for Disease Resistance in Barley Landraces from Syria and Jordan
A number of barley landraces collected in Syria and Jordan were evaluated for resistance to yellow rust, powdery mildew, scald and covered smut by inoculating single-head progenies with local pathogen strains during two ...