This study considers the efficiency of irrigation water usage in the
economic and productive aspects of peanuts crop in Syrian lands, in
particular: mid, coastal and eastern lands, in terms of arithmetic
means during the period of 2010-2012.
The research was conducted at Al- Hassaka province during the 2010 - 2011
season to study socio-economic factors and other factors affecting the decision
of wheat farmers to adopt the technology of modern irrigation and to identify
the barriers th
at limit the adoption of these techniques. Correlation and binary
logistic regression was applied for data analysis.
The results showed that 77.78% of the total farmers studied were using
modern irrigation to irrigate their wheat crops and the rest were using
traditional irrigation and this percentage is expected to increase from 77.78%
in 2010 to 95% in 2025 with an annual rate of nearly 1.15%. Sprinkler
irrigation adopted by larger percentage (63.33%) of farmers who adopted
modern irrigation techniques and followed by the developed surface irrigation
on lines (11.11%). It was observed that the high cost of the network played a
fundamental role in the lack of 42.55% of farmers to adopt modern irrigations
Statistical analysis showed that there was an inverse significant relationship
between each of independent variables (percentage of farming labor force to
total family labor force, farmer's experience) and the dependant variable
adoption of modern irrigation techniques but there was a positive significant
relationship between adoption of modern irrigation and other independent
variables such as, cereals yield, farmers education level and direction of the
farmer towards the agricultural extension.
This investigation was carried out during 2011–2012 season at the
biotechnology department\General Commission for Scientific Agricultural
Researches in order to detect the presence of Giardia Cysts on fresh vegetables
and irrigation water using PC
R technique to detect the status of Giardia cysts
in ten different agricultural areas of Damascus Countryside. 120 samples
including, 40 irrigation water and 80 vegetables samples were randomly
collected and tested. Out of 120 samples examined, only 25.8 % were
contaminated with Giardia cysts and these included 37.5% of irrigation water
samples and 20% of fresh vegetables samples. G. lamblia cysts were detected in
12.5% of examined samples, 17.5% of irrigation water samples and 10% of
fresh vegetables samples. The majority of contaminated samples (41.6%),
(25%) for Giardia and G. lamblia, respectively were from Misraba area without
statistically significant with Kafrein area, which showed the lowest
contamination with Giardia cysts (8.33%) and was free of G. lamblia cysts. This
study confirmed the importance of application of molecular biology methods in
the detection of Giardia on vegetables and their Irrigation water, since used
primers showed high specificity and sensitivity in the detection of the Giardia
genus and discriminate the Human pathogenic type, G. lamblia.
تأثير نوعية مياه الري وبعض محسنات التربة في خواص التربة وإنتاجية محاصيل العلف في ظروف حوض الفرات الأدنى
دراسة تأثير درجةونوعية ملوحة مياه الري في حركة الأملاح في التربة ومدى استجابة بعض طرز الذرة البيضاء (Sorghum bicolor Moench ) لتحميل الاجهاد الملحي ضمن ظروف محافظة دير الزور
