Optimal utilization of salinit...

Accomplishments:

 

• Stop the deterioration of agricultural land by adopting integrated systems for bio-saline agriculture.
• Introducing the cultivation of non-traditional and salt-tolerant crops and improving and sustaining their productivity.
• Diversification of the sources of self-sufficiency in grains, and their manufacture in different forms of food.
• Increasing the utilization of green fodder and preserving it in a processed form (silage) to feed livestock and a source of income.
• Raising the efficiency of economic and nutritional utilization of dry agricultural residues to feed on them, and to produce organic fertilizers.
• Increasing the quality of processed animal products, such as dairy products.
• Increasing the income of farmers in the villages participating in the implementation of the project.
• Economic and social empowerment of farmers' wives, through small businesses.
• Increasing the effectiveness of women's participation in spreading and adopting alternative crops.
• Treating agricultural wastewater to reduce the bad effects of irrigation with wastewater.
• Improving the quality of degraded lands, preserving the cultivated areas, and reducing the degree of land waste.
• Providing irrigation water by using low-water consumption, salinity-resistant crops.
• Proposing new and innovative models for the network of covered agricultural drains fields, to work on solving the drainage problem.