ICARDA annual report 2004

“Technology Generation and
Dissemination for Sustainable
Production of Cereals and Cool-
Season Legumes,” the following
events were organized:
• A regional specialized training
course on “Integrated Pest
Management” in Aleppo, Syria,
in May. Twelve scientists,
researchers and extensionists
from Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia,
Sudan, and Yemen participated
in the course
• A regional wheat and food
legumes traveling workshop in
Egypt in March. More than 100
scientists from ARC, 40 extensionists
from the Ministry of
Agriculture and more than 200
farmers participated.
• A regional traveling workshop
in Ethiopia in September.
Participants came from Egypt,
Ethiopia, Sudan, and Yemen
and included farmers, extensionists
and researchers.
• A national traveling workshop
on food legumes and wheat in
Sudan in January, organized by
ARC-Sudan, and ICARDA.
Participants included more than
60 scientists from ARC, professors
and students from faculties
of agriculture from Nahr El-Nile
and northern states, extensionists
from the Ministry of
Agriculture as well as more than
100 farmers from different locations.
Also, the NVRSRP and the
ICARDA Seed Unit organized a
regional training workshop on
“Informal Quality Seed
Production” at Wad Medani,
Sudan, in December. The activity
was implemented within the framework
of the “Canada for Africa
Grant,” targeting sub-Saharan
African countries. Participants
came from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan,
and Yemen. Specialists from
ICARDA and Sudanese institutions
acted as facilitators.
Interregional cooperation
H.E. Dr Mohamed Emadi, Deputy
Minister of Agriculture, Extension
and Farming Systems, Iran, visited
Egypt in March to discuss bilateral
collaboration between the two
countries in agricultural research
and development. He visited ARC
and CLAES. He also participated in
a regional traveling workshop
organized in Egypt by the
ICARDA/IFAD-funded project on
“Technology Generation and
Dissemination for Sustainable
Production of Cereals and Cool-
Season Food Legumes.” During a
farmer field school session, Dr
Emadi had extensive discussions
with farmers, researchers, and
More than 100
Sudanese farmers
participated
in the traveling
workshop on
food legumes
and wheat
conducted in
Sudan on 14-20
January 2004.
International Cooperation
H.E. Dr Mohamed Emadi (second from
right), Deputy Minister of Agriculture,
Extension and Farming Systems, Iran,
participated in a traveling workshop in
Fayoum, Egypt on 21-23 March.
extensionists on improved technologies
and IPM.
In March, a delegation from the
Barani Project in Pakistan, comprising
the Director of Barani
Agricultural Research Institute and
a senior pathologist from the
Fodder Research Institute in
Pakistan, visited ARC, Egypt, to get
acquainted with seed production
systems of forage crops, particularly
Egyptian clover. They also visited
Sakha and Seru Research
Stations, the modern private farms
in the newly reclaimed lands, the
Matrouh Resource Management
Project (MRMP), and Ain Shams
University.
A delegation from Kyrgyzstan
consisting of H.E. Mr Aleksander
Kostyuk, Minister of Agriculture,
Mr Samagan Mamatov, Chairman
of Agrarian Committee of Kyrgyz
Parliament, and Mr Kambaralt
Kasymov, Member of Kyrgyz
Parliament, visited Egypt in June.
The delegation visited the
Agricultural Genetic Engineering
Research Institute (AGERI) and a
modern farm in the newly
reclaimed areas of Nubaria region
to see modern agricultural production
systems.
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