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Microcatchment Water Harvesting for Olive Production in Water-scarce Environments
Since time immemorial, people in dry environments have harvested water from rainfall for drinking, washing, livestock watering, and crop production. Motorized drilling equipment and pumps, as well as government-controlled ...
Morphological and Productive Aspects of Four Syrian Olive Cultivars
Syria has a rich variety of olive (Olea europaea L.) germplasm that has not been fully explored yet. The expansion in olive production in Syria to less favorable environments implies the necessity of acquiring reliable ...
Water Harvesting and Supplemental Irrigation for Improved Water Productivity of Dry Farming Systems in West Asia and North Africa
In the dry areas, water, not land, is the most limiting resource for improved agricultural production. Maximizing water productivity, and not yield per unit of land, is therefore a better strategy for dry farming systems. ...
Water-Saving Techniques Practiced by Olive Growers in Dry Areas
During the last two decades, olive production in Syria has expanded to less favorable marginal dry areas, where water is the most important limiting factor. Farmers in these areas have been applying special management ...
Shifting from Aerial to Ground Spraying for Sunn Pest Control: Farmers' Perceptions and Problems
Turkish government has been changing Sunn Pest control policy by shifting from aerial to ground
spraying. The Thrace Region is a major cereal growing area and in 2002 and 2003 no aerial spraying for Sunn
Pest was done. Our ...
Can agricultural research impact on the poor? Evidence from dry marginal areas in Syria and Yemen
Both public and private agricultural investment have always favoured the more productive areas where the potential for increasing yields and returns to investment are higher. The less favourable areas, where inherent ...