Questionnaire has been designed to meet the research objectives.
The impacts included income, income sources, market, marketing, and
expenses.
This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of salmonella in the
bowels of the broiler carcass in poultry slaughterhouses in southern Syrian
governorates. 216 random samples of giblets included liver, spleen, heart and
gizzard) collected
weekly during March and September of 2011 from small
slaughterhouses in southern governorates were incubated in buffered peptone
water, selinite broth, Salmonella-Shigella agar and Hikton agar media. The
suspected colonies were subjected for staining and microscopically
examination. as well as to biochemical tests.
Drought is a recurrent phenomenon and a normal feature of climate. It is one of the major natural hazards that frequently hits Syria, causing significant damages to ecosystems and social–economic environment, especially agricultural areas.
The purpo
se of current study is to estimate the degree of severity and the frequency of drought at seasonal and annual timescales in the southern region of Syria by applying the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) on the rainfall data recorded over (1958-2006) in four climatic stations: Damscus, Khrabo, Dara and El-Sweda.
The results showed that there were no significant changes or trends in annual winter and spring rainfall at southern region scale. They also showed its frequent exposure to drought. At annual timescale, Damscus and Khrabo stations were distinguished from the others by extreme drought, and Khrabo by severe drought. The season mostly exposed to drought events was spring, followed by winter and autumn seasons. The absence of the evere drought of Dara winter, and the extreme drought of Damscus and Khrabo autumn were also observed.
