Kherbet Al-Teen Research Station
The station was established in the year 2016 in the governorate of Homs at an area of 238 dunums. The station enjoys a Mediterranean climate which is cold and rainy in winter and hot and dry in summer with a rainfall average estimated at 600 mm/year. Its soil is red, heavily clay and poor with organic matter.
Objectives:
- Study, evaluate and select the superior genotypes of durum wheat, bread wheat, barley and sorghum bicolor and disseminate the promising lines that are tolerant to environmental stresses to select the appropriate crop type.
- Propagate and develop the non-conventional pastoral plants and shrubs to be used in the rangeland development programs whether by cultivation or re-sowing to face the desertification problems.
- Develop and improve livestock in the desert and newly-reclaimed areas.
- Provide applied extension packages and scientific services to those who are interested in the various agricultural activities in the area.
- Organize training courses in the fields of agricultural development.
Infrastructure:
- Animal production facilities and barns.
- Administrative offices and warehouses.
Activities:
- Improve cereal crop productivity and cultivate 196 dunums of ACSAD’s promising environmental stress-tolerant varieties and lines of (durum wheat, bread wheat and barley).
- Raise field crop productivity under rainfed and irrigated agriculture conditions.
- Evaluate and improve goat and sheep productivity.
