Arab Organization for Agricultural Development Awards for Arab Food Security 2018

The Arab Organization for Agricultural Development Awards for Specialized Research, Studies, and Projects on Arab Food Security for the year 2018:

Research and Studies Awards:

1- Agricultural sector: Research and studies: Distinguished in the field of increasing production and productivity of wheat crops.

2- Dates: Distinctive research and studies in the field of date processing industries.

3- Fish wealth: Distinctive research and studies in the field of fish farming technologies.

Distinctive research and studies in the field of increasing production and productivity of wheat crops

First place

Development of a new variety of bread wheat (Ma’rouf) with multiple resistance to rust diseases for irrigated and rain-fed areas in Iraq.

Imad Mahmoud Al-Ma’rouf, Rizan Mohammed Saleh, Haza Abdul Karim Ismail, Abdul Karim Ahmed Nafl, Najdat Nouri Abdul Rahman.
College of Agriculture / University of Sulaymaniyah / Republic of Iraq.

Second place

Intensive farming to reduce irrigation causing soil degradation,

Samiha Abu Al-Fotouh Awda, Essam El-Sayed Kassem, Abdel-Hafiz Ahmed Zahry, Sherif Ibrahim El-Sayed Abdel-Wahab
Field Crops Research Institute, Soil, Water and Environment Research Institute, and Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Arab Republic of Egypt.

Third place

The role of the national program for multiplying high-grade wheat seeds in improving production quality and raising the standard of living of farmers (an economic field study)

Francis Oraha Geno, Wathiq Abdul Qahar Abdullah, Mohammed Khalid Mohammed Farhan, Hussein Mahdi Madhi, Mohammed Talib Hadi, Mohammed Jassim Akar
Ministry of Agriculture/Republic of Iraq.

Distinctive research and studies in the field of date processing industries (There are no applicants.)

Distinctive research and studies in the field of fish farming technologies

First place:

Development of low-cost fish feeds based on local raw materials for farmed tilapia.

Isa bin Hamad bin Abdullah Al Farsi, Alaa Daoud Suleiman. Badr bin Yaqoub bin Mubarak Al-Hattali, Khalid bin Mohammed bin Saif Al-Batashi
Fish Farming Center / Directorate General of Fisheries Research / Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries / Sultanate of Oman.

Second place:

Biology of reproduction and spawning of sand sea cucumbers in the Sultanate of Oman

Khalfan bin Mohammed Al Rashidi / Directorate General of Fisheries Research / Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries / Sultanate of Oman.

Third place

Effect of using carbon sources with different dietary protein levels in biofloc system on growth rates, immune status and antioxidant status of Nile tilapia. Summary in Arabic

Abdullah Taj El-Din Mansour Ali / Department of Animal and Fish Production / Faculty of Agriculture (Saba Pasha) / Alexandria University / Arab Republic of Egypt Maria Angeles Esteban / Department of Cell Biology and Histology / Faculty of Biology / University of Murcia / Spain.