{"id":5202,"date":"2022-08-28T16:48:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T16:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=5202"},"modified":"2022-08-31T06:44:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T06:44:44","slug":"current-agricultural-practices-in-tartous-citrus-orchards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=5202","title":{"rendered":"Current Agricultural Practices in Tartous Citrus Orchards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Shadi Faskha<sup>*(1)<\/sup><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 16px;\">(1) Tartous Agriculture Research Center, General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research (GCSAR), Damascus, Syria. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 16px;\">(*Corresponding author: Dr. Shadi Faskha. Email: <a href=\"mailto:Shadifaskha5@gmail.com\">Shadifaskha5@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 16px;\">Received: 9\/04\/2021\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Accepted: 27\/09\/2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\">An Analysis study of the current agricultural practices implemented during 2018-2019 was conducted in citrus orchards in Tartous Governorate, Syria. Through a questionnaire for 370 farmers, the results obtained showed that 97.57% of farmers add organic fertilizers, and 71.35% of them carry out the pruning process. As for pests, citrus rust mites and Mediterranean fruit flies were the most important pests with 48.4% and 47.6% of the subjects, respectively. The results also showed that 68.6% of farmers use chemical control in their orchards, and 44.5% of them used broad-spectrum insecticides (abamectin, acetamprid, thiamethoxam, thiosyclam, dimethoate and deltamethrin) whereas 55.5% of them used (mineral oil, sulfur, and copper). The results showed that 89.5% of the farmers considered that the applied biological control program was successful. On the other hand, the obstacles facing the cultivation and production of citrus were: low prices, marketing problems, high production input prices, high transportation and fuel wages, and adverse environmental conditions 45.14%, 27.3%, 19.46%, 4.59% and 3.51% of survey respondents, respectively. However, farmer\u2019s educational level played a positive role in some implemented practices.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\"><strong>Key words<\/strong>: Citrus, Agricultural practices, Farmer\u2019s Knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\">Full paper in Arabic: <a href=\"http:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/wp-content\/uploads\/v9n4p16.pdf\">pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadi Faskha*(1) (1) Tartous Agriculture Research Center, General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research (GCSAR), Damascus, Syria. (*Corresponding author: Dr. Shadi Faskha. Email: Shadifaskha5@gmail.com) Received: 9\/04\/2021\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Accepted: 27\/09\/2021 Abstract: An Analysis study of the current agricultural practices implemented &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=5202\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5202"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5434,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions\/5434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}