Focus on Seed Programs The Yemen Seed Industry
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Kamal Mohammed Hussein Al-Tashi, Wadie Abdul-Habib. (2/1/2001). Focus on Seed Programs The Yemen Seed Industry. Lebanon: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).
Abstract
Yemen is located in the southern
part of the Arabian Peninsula and
is bordered by the Red Sea in the
west, Indian Ocean in the south,
Saudi Arabia in the north and Oman in the
East and covers approximately 55.5
million ha. The arable land is about 3.5
million ha (6.3%), and the annual crop
area is estimated at 1.5 million ha (Table
1). The farm size and farm holdings are
given in Table 2.
The country has five agroecological zones:
(1) coastal lowlands (0-200 mm rainfall);
(2) southern highlands (200-1500 mm
rainfall); (3) central highlands (300-2000
mm rainfall); (4) eastern semi-desert; and
(5) Hadramout plateau.
