Session XII 

Topic: Arid Environment and its Utilization

( From 12:40 to 14:50 )

 Time

Activity

From

To

12:40

13:10

13:30

13:50

13:10

13:30

13:50

14:10

Chairman: Dr. Abdulaziz M. Alsaeed

Reporteur: Dr. Saud L. Alroweily

Keynote Lecture:

Strategies for Managing Scarce Water Resources in the Drier Environments.

Dheeb Oweis

International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) Aleppo, Syria.

Effect of water quality on yield and quality of three lettuce cultivars under greenhouse conditions.

A. A. Alsadon, M. A. Wahb-allah, and S. O. Khalil.

Dept. of Plant production, College of Food and Agric. Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

Establishment of acacia plantation in the Central part of Saudi Arabia  with the aid of DRiWATER.

I M Aref¹, L I El-Juhany¹ and M N Shalby²

¹Dept.of Plant Production , College of Agric., King Saud Univ., Saudi Arabia,

²Institute of Natural Resources and Environment, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Applied studies of Water Conservation on Alfalfa production at  NADEC ( Hail project (.

Eng. Salim S. Alshawy

Agric. Sector Manager, Saudi Arabia

14:10

14:50

      Recommendations and Closing Session