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Syria - Participatory barley breeding—farmers’ input becomes everyone’s gain
Kherbet El Dieb, north of Aleppo, is one of 24 Syrian villages involved in a participatory plant breeding (PPB) initiative started by the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA). Yields there ...
Plant Nutrient Management in Rainfed Farming Systems
Global population growth and land-use pressure are placing increasing emphasis on expanding crop and animal output in rainfed agriculture. Rainfed areas of the world have some common features, but some unique biophysical ...
Combining current land use and farmers’ knowledge to design land-use requirements and improve land suitability evaluation
Land suitability analysis is very important to assess and propose the most suitable land-use options. The reliability of land suitability evaluation is controlled by choosing the most limiting land characteristics and their ...
The use of the microcatchment water harvesting for fodder shrub production
The Badia constitutes about 90% of the total land area of Jordan, which is 89 342 km2. Its average annual rainfall is < 200 mm. The area with annual rainfall of 100–200 mm is considered the promising rangeland for ...
Assessing Returns from Investments in two Agricultural Development Projects (Protected Agriculture and Modern Irrigation Systems) in the Sultanate of Oman
ويقدم هذا التقرير موجزاً عن الدراسة المشتركة التي قامت بها المديرية العامة للتخطيط وتنمي
الاستثمار في وزارة الزراعة والثروة السمكية، وبرنامج البحوث الاجتماعية والاقتصادية والسياسات الزراعية
في المركز الدولي للبحوث الزراعية ...
Jordan: In search of new benefit - sharing practices through participatory plant breeding
Of Jordan’s 8.93 million hectares, only 7.8% is arable land. However, the agricultural sector plays an important role through its contribution to national income and employment. Agriculture contributes 7.5% to gross national ...
Microcatchment water harvesting systems for fruit trees and shrubs
This report will focus on results of 2004/05 and 2005/06 seasons in which the conventional handmade microcatchment was compared to the mechanized one through research done at the Jordan University of Science and Technology site.
Evapotranspiration and water use of full and deficit irrigated cotton in the Mediterranean environment in northern Syria
Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is the most important industrial and summer cash crop in Syria and many other countries in the arid areas but there are concerns about future production levels, given the high water requirements ...
Treated wastewater use in agriculture eases pressure on water resources. استخدام مياه الصرف الصحي المعالجة في الزراعة يخفف الضغط على الموارد المائية
This project is promoting and piloting the sustainable use of treated wastewater in Palestinian agriculture. It uses community-based interventions and safe use protocols to integrate wastewater irrigation into farming ...
Sustainable technology improves farmers’ livelihoods. تقنية مستدامة تحسن سبل معيشة المزارعين
This project promotes the use of IPM and Organic fertilization to increase the productivity of date palms, cereals, and food legumes (chickpeas, lentils and peas) in Iraq. By implementing these sustainable farming integrated ...