Training Details
- Inventory of desert lands that can be reclaimed by aerial photography and remote sensing
- Land surveying, methods of studying land sectors, and zoning and evaluating land.
- Chemical and physical properties of sandy and calcareous lands and methods of analysis.
- Methods of reclamation of sandy and calcareous lands, methods of treating their defects, and methods of fertilizing them.
- Organic fertilizer and ways to add it to the land - Biogas production from farm waste.
- Nursery work and seedling production methods, the use of tissue culture (production of seedlings).
- The types of crops that are abundant in the desert lands and the methods of their cultivation and treatment.
- Fruit trees and orchards exist in the desert lands.
- Windbreaks - types - how to plant and maintain them.
- Medicinal and aromatic plants (their cultivation and production and the types that thrive in the desert lands).
- Maintenance and operation of agricultural equipment.
- Animal and poultry production farms in the desert lands.
- Wells - construction methods - maintenance and exploitation methods.
- Modern irrigation systems and methods in desert lands and properties of irrigation water.
- Marketing farm products (crops - fruits - animal production) and their economics.
- Pests affecting crops and fruit trees and methods of their control.
- The economics of agricultural mechanization.
- Field visits.