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مقاومة العائل، الممارسات الزراعية والمكافحة الحيوية مكونات أساسية في برامج المكافحة المتكاملة للآفات; Host Plant Resistance, Cultural Practices, and Biological Control: Essential Components in IPM Programs
A number of pathogens persist in plant remains, and reproduce on them sexually, as they may persevere
on infected seeds, and these become sources of disease transmission from one field to another and from one field to ...
Community-based Watershed Research in the Terraced Mountains of Yemen
The threat that the degradation of terraces in the highlands of Yemen poses to the livelihood of rural households and to national economic development has been widely recognized. The aim of this study was to contribute to ...
Food uses of barley
Barley grain is used as feed, malt, and food. Our ancestors depended on barley as a staple food more than we
do now. Barley played an important role in the origin and development of the Neolithic culture.
Since its ...
Potential Sites for Hill Reservoirs: An Assessment Methodology Using GIS and Remote Sensing Tools
This study investigates the development of a methodology to identify potential sites for hill reservoirs using remote sensing and GIS, in an 1113-km2 area in northeast Tunisia. The general approach has two steps; first, ...
Wild Cicer species in Chickpea Improvement
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L) is one of the most important cool food season legumes grown in Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA). Although substantial research has been done for the improvement of the crop, major ...
Microfinance in marginal dry areas: Impact of village credits and savings associations on poverty in the Jabal al Hoss region in Syria
Worldwide, microfinance has been recognized as a powerful tool for alleviating poverty and
raising living standards (Brandsma and Chaouali, 1998). In Syria microfinance is a new industry
and started in 1997. The Rural ...
Adaptation and Evaluation of SWAT Model for Application in an Arid Watershed in southeast Tunisia
In the arid regions of Tunisia, huge efforts are being made in water harvesting and soil conservation. A growing need for the assessment of their impact is felt. Due to the complexity of the processes at the watershed ...
Strategies to sustain productivity of olive groves on steep slopes in the northwest of the Syrian Arab Republic
In the marginal Mediterranean areas of the northwest of the Syrian Arab Republic, land degradation is a serious problem, particularly on vulnerable agricultural land. The traditional land-husbandry practices have not kept ...
Breeding for multiple disease and multiple gene resistance in barley
Combining genes for disease resistance is very difficult, as most breeding programs can only test for the diseases present at their breeding sites. In addition, pyramiding genes or developing multiple gene resistance is ...
The Role of Early Sowing with Supplemental Irrigation in Cool Highland Environments
The per capita wheat consumption in the Central and West Asia and North
Africa (CWANA) region is the highest in the world. Therefore, the crop occupies a major share
of arable land annually in the region-as much as 70% of ...