King Saud University’s Chair of Date Palm Research (CDPR) has been one of the guests of honour during the Saudi Society for Agricultural Sciences’ Seventh Conference on the Al-Masra farm in Al-Kheta in the Provence of Hail. Held from Tuesday May 7 until Wednesday May 9 on the farm, owned by Sheikh Ali bin Mohammed Al-Gami’a, [...]
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Farming experts from across the Gulf are flocking to Hail Provence to learn about the latest developments in agricultural technology at the seventh convention of the Saudi Society for Agricultural Sciences. Sponsored by His Royal Highness Prince Saud bin Abdul Mohsen bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Hail Region, the convention entitled ‘Agriculture and food security challenges [...]
Sunday, May 5, 2013
A renowned expert in plant diseases has addressed students at King Saud University on viruses present in important legume crops grown in Saudi Arabia and how these diseases can be managed. Professor Judith Brown, from the University of Arizona, USA spoke at the College of Food and Agricultural Sciences on Sunday May 5. The lecture is [...]
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Professor Hamza M. Abu-Tarboush from King Saud University’s Department of Food and Nutrition Sciences has become the first Arab ever to be awarded a qualification in nutrition and diet from the world renowned Institute of Food Technologists in the USA. The certificate of nutrition and diet now makes Abu-Tarboush a fully certified food scientist, one of [...]
Monday, April 15, 2013
KSU’s College of Food and Agricultural Sciences attended the 28th Scientific Convention of the Saudi Biological Society hosted at Hail University over the past week. There were more than four hundred participants from both Saudi and foreign universities at the convention which ran from April 9 to 12. KSU’s College of Food Science and Agriculture submitted [...]
Monday, April 8, 2013
Researchers from King Saud University were been invited to present their findings at the leading international conference dealing with the biggest threat to Saudi Arabia’s date palm industry; the red palm weevil. Held at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology the “International conference on red palm weevil” aimed to develop a strategy for [...]
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
King Saud University’s College of Food and Agricultural Sciences can take a bow after more than a thousand people a day visited their display at the Ninth Riyadh Spring Festival held from Tuesday March 19 until Friday March 29. Representing the college at the festival was the Agricultural Engineering Student Club, the Plant Production and [...]
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
To help kick off King Saud University’s 36th Tree Week on Sunday, March 3, Rector Badran Al-Omar planted a ceremonial tree in the College of Food Science and Agriculture’s western garden. The celebration, whose theme is “The Tree is My Friend,” was organized by the college in cooperation with the university’s afforestation management. The rector then [...]
Saturday, March 2, 2013
King Saud University will have a greener tint following the 36th Tree Week at the Riyadh campus, where faculty will teach students to plant and care for trees as well as distribute seedlings. Started by the College of Food Science and Agriculture in cooperation with the Afforestation Management department and sponsored by KSU Rector Badran [...]
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Farming techniques for the next century are being pioneered at King Saud University by a ground breaking precision farming project that hopes to reduce the amount of fertilizer, pesticide, water that farmers need use, all while improving crop yields The KSU precision farming project, organised by the Precision Agriculture Research Chair (PARC), uses satellite imagery, GPS [...]
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