Seminar on Combating Desertification

Environment

DAMASCUS, (ST) – A seminar entitled “hand in hand to combat desertification” was held here and  discussed the role of traditional practices in agriculture in increasing desertification, land deterioration, the impact of the use of wastewater for irrigation and the role of guidance in agricultural work.

At the opening ceremony held by the Ministry of Environment in cooperation with the General Federation of Peasants (GFP), Deputy Minister of Environment Affairs, eng. Imad Hassoun, confirmed the importance of teamwork to rebalance the environmental systems and focus on raising awareness about the aggravated risks concerning the desertification issue, noting that the government has exerted great efforts to reduce land deterioration and combating desertification .

 “The Ministry of Environment completed the National Plan to combat desertification, which included many of the projects that have been listed in the fifth plan, including integrated development of pastures and livestock, partnership development project in local communities in the Badia, the of project of the traditional water management techniques  and the use of renewable energy,” eng. Hassoun pointed out.
For his part, Head of the Agricultural Affairs Bureau at the GFP, Ali Habib Issa, clarified that the importance of working together to preserve the environment and the need to educate farmers and the people about the problem of desertification by doing initiatives to make people more aware of this vital issue and the need to circulate this experience on the Syrian governorates.

 Sh. Kh.

You might also like
Environment

The Syria Trust for Development carries out a campaign to plow the fire-affected…

Environment

100 Students Complete Work on The Environmental Garden Project at Al-Baath University

Environment

Iraq closes its airports due to dust storm and Qameshli suffers too

Environment

The United Nations warns of a global drought

.. _copyright: Copyright ========= .. code-block:: none Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Tobias Ratschiller Copyright (C) 2001-2018 Marc Delisle Olivier Müller Robin Johnson Alexander M. Turek Michal Čihař Garvin Hicking Michael Keck Sebastian Mendel [check credits for more details] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . Third party licenses ++++++++++++++++++++ phpMyAdmin includes several third-party libraries which come under their respective licenses. jQuery's license, which is where we got the files under js/vendor/jquery/ is (MIT|GPL), a copy of each license is available in this repository (GPL is available as LICENSE, MIT as js/vendor/jquery/MIT-LICENSE.txt). The download kit additionally includes several composer libraries. See their licensing information in the vendor/ directory.