At the beginning of
October a two-week regional Training Course for enhancing the Use of Salt
Affected Soils and Saline Water for Crop and Biomass Production and Reducing
Land and Water Quality Degradation in ARASIA States Parties was held in Dubai
in collaboration with ICBA.
At the beginning of
October a two-week regional Training Course for enhancing the Use of Salt
Affected Soils and Saline Water for Crop and Biomass Production and Reducing
Land and Water Quality Degradation in ARASIA States Parties was held in Dubai
in collaboration with ICBA.
The purpose of the course,
in which ICBA and the Environmental Agency-Abu Dhabi participated, was to
provide knowledge and training on the use of nuclear and conventional
techniques to determine soil water content and the use of crop Simulation
(AquaCrop).
The training covered all
aspects of water management and techniques to determine soil moisture content
including the Netron Probe method.
The next
steps will be to implement the techniques in the participants’ countries for
regional projects. In doing so the provided salt tolerant genotypes should be
used for the designed trials in 2016/2017
to reach the project outputs and outcomes.
Those
regional Training Courses are part of the Cooperative Agreement for Arab States
in Asia for Research, Development and Training related to Nuclear Science and
Technology (ARASIA).
