Damascus-Sana
The University of Hama and the Arab Center for Studies of Arid Zones and Arid Lands "ACSAD" signed an agreement to enhance technical and scientific cooperation between them and to conduct specialized scientific research and studies and field applications that achieve optimal investment of natural resources.
The agreement provides for cooperation between the two sides in the fields of preserving and improving animal and plant genetic structures suitable for dry areas, developing models for integrated agricultural production systems, developing organic agriculture, and in using biotechnologies in the field of artificial insemination, embryo transfer, tube fertilization, plant and animal genetic signature, monitoring land degradation, and rehabilitation of areas. Environmental degradation, soil studies and cooperation in the field of animal health, investigation of epidemic and common diseases and methods of prevention.
The agreement included supporting postgraduate students “masters and doctoral degrees” to complete their theses whose topics are agreed upon between the two parties through scientific and technical consultation, including in the tasks of the “ACSAD” organization and its fields of activities and research, and to contribute to supporting research and studies by providing the laboratory, field, information and office supplies needed by those researches and the joint organization of meetings. Scientific and training courses aimed at strengthening and qualifying cadres in the areas of joint work and exchanging publications and publications issued by both parties.
Dr. Muhammad Ziyad Sultan, President of the University of Hama, said in a press statement after the signing of the agreement that it is a new start to the path of cooperation between the two sides and a natural outcome of the prestigious position that the "ACSAD" organization enjoys, especially in the recent period at the level of the Arab world, hoping for fruitful cooperation in various areas of interest to it. ACSAD Organization for the Advancement of the Scientific, Research and Agricultural Sector, which has proven highly efficient in all fields in which it operates.
For his part, ACSAD Director General, Dr. Nasreddin Al-Obaid, stressed in a similar statement that the agreement embodies constructive cooperation relations between the organization, the Ministry of Higher Education and the University of Hama in various fields of common interest, expressing the organization's readiness for more cooperation with professors and researchers in all Syrian universities to serve ACSAD goals in sustainable agricultural development processes in Syria and the Arab countries.
Ghossoub Abboud