Trip report on a mission to East Azerbaijan, Lorestan, Kermanshah and Kurdistan provinces under the Iran-ICARDA food security project
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Date
2017-05-30Citation
Abdoul Aziz Niane, Zewdie Bishaw, Seyed yaghoub Sadeghian, Seyed Ata Rezaei. (30/5/2017). Trip report on a mission to East Azerbaijan, Lorestan, Kermanshah and Kurdistan provinces under the Iran-ICARDA food security project.
Abstract
Two training courses of two full-days each with extensive professional interaction in classrooms,
post-harvest seed facilities, innovation platforms and demos have been organized during the mission. A total
of 89 project implementation experts from a wide range of private and public partner institutions in the four
target provinces, namely DARI, AJO, RCANR, SPCRI, private seed producing and processing companies
and agriculture service providers participated in the two courses (Annex1).
The training courses covered the importance of quality seed in scaling out agriculture innovations and
associated technical, organizational and managerial issues (Annex 2). The above issues have been presented,
discussed and demonstrated. The subject matter specialists in the training courses were Dr Zewdie Bishaw
and Dr Abdoul Aziz Niane from ICARDA, Dr Saber Golkari, Dr. Sadeghzadeh – Ahari, Eng. Hoseinpour
and Dr. Pezeshpour from the Dryland Agriculture Research Institute (DARI). Simultaneous translations into
the local language were provided for all presentations and discussions by Dr Sadeghian, Dr Rezaei and Dr
Roohi. Relevant reference material on the subject matter in the form of training manuals and lecture notes
have been provided in both soft and hard copy versions.
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Niane, Abdoul Azizhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0873-4394
Bishaw, Zewdiehttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1763-3712
Sadeghian, Seyed yaghoubhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7276-5879
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