Plant protection, analysis training course

MUSCAT: The Training Course on Plant Protection and Statistical Analysis began on Sunday at Muscat Holiday Inn under the auspices of Dr Ahmed bin Nasser bin Abdullah al Bakri, Undersecretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries for Agriculture.

The training course is organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in cooperation with the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) from February 26 till March 2.

The training course aims to raise the scientific and technical level of the participants in the diagnosis of date palms diseases and the preparation and design of research experiments, highlighting the date palms disease, symptoms, spread of disease, actions taken to control it, as well as the introduction of the integrated management programmes for these diseases and how to implement them.

The training course is part of the development of sustainable systems for the production of date palms in GCC countries and raise the efficiency of researchers and specialists’ capabilities in the field of plant protection in the GCC countries.

Twenty researchers and specialists from all GCC countries take part in the training session, as well as three international experts and a number of specialists in the field of integrated management of date palms diseases and statistical analysis of studies and experiments and monitoring of diseases by using the GIS and remote sensing systems, which is one of the modern and important methods that are addressed by the training course.

— ONA