The Northern Highlands Regional Research Station implemented a field day for grape growers in the Central Valley of Sanhan and Bani Bahloul District in Sana’a.
The field day comes within the framework of the farm school for integrated grape crop management, which was implemented by the regional station through the Sanaa Basin Project since the beginning of the current grape season.
During the field day event, the head of the research team, consisting of specialists in plant protection, land, water, and horticulture, explained that a demonstration field had been allocated and used to carry out agricultural operations under the supervision of the research team, with the aim of comparing the results of agricultural operations carried out in the school field, in accordance with the researchers’ recommendations, and another similar field was implemented. Agricultural operations according to traditional farmers’ practices.
The general manager of the station, Engineer Ahmed Al-Jalal, pointed out that the farm school for integrated grape crop management began at the beginning of the current grape season in order to keep pace with all agricultural operations and special services for the stages before, during and after flowering and even harvesting.
For their part, the researchers, plant protection specialist Dr. Rafiq Al-Sharabi and post-harvest transactions specialist Dr. Yasser Al-Jawfi, indicated that the field school program included awareness-raising activities for farmers about field operations and sound agricultural practices for caring for grape trees, such as weeding, pruning, irrigation, pest control, irrigation regulation, and others.
While the Director of the Agricultural Extension Department at the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Engineer Hafiz Allah Al-Qardi, provided an explanation about healthy agricultural operations and their impact on the grape crop in large quantities and high quality.
Source: Yemen News Agency
