Damascus-SANA
The Arab Center for Studies of Dry Areas and Dry Lands (ACSAD), in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, started this morning training thirty engineers and agricultural experts from Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Libya, Tunisia, Iraq and Mauritania on the production, characterization and mechanisms of approving grain crops and estimating the forms of mineral elements in soil and water.
ACSAD Director Dr. Nasr El-Din El-Obeid stressed that this training creates good opportunities for exchanging information between Arab grain and wheat experts and scientists, which will positively reflect on the efforts of Arab countries to narrow the gap between the increasing levels of production and consumption as a result of population growth, noting that the training also aims to improve the level of scientific competence. Theory and practice for trainees in the fields of wheat production, improving agricultural soil fertility, modernizing production methods in Arab countries, and benefiting from the experiences of ACSD.
Al-Obaid called for concerted efforts and hard work in light of the crises of wars, epidemics and climate changes to reduce their negative repercussions that led to the rise in fuel prices and various humanitarian needs and crises in energy and food that our Arab region suffered more than others, stressing that the increase in wheat production has become a very urgent issue. And it requires intensification and development of work in all axes related to its production.
Over the course of five days, a number of ACSAD experts and researchers will give several lectures related to wheat production, breeding methods, genetic improvement, and the development of varieties with high productive efficiency and tolerant to biotic and abiotic stresses, the relationship of production to climatic changes, the foundations for characterizing grain crops, mechanisms for adopting varieties, and optimum methods for serving and nurturing grain crops to reach the highest level. Productivity quantitatively and qualitatively.
The opening of the training course was attended by the Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Eng. Hassan Qatna, the President of the General Union of Peasants Ahmed Saleh Ibrahim, the Resident Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Mike Robson, the heads of unions, the head of the Syrian Chambers of Agriculture, Muhammad Kashto, general managers, representatives of international organizations and managers of agricultural activities.
Ghassob Abboud
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