AMMAN Agriculture Minister Khalid Hneifat on Monday discussed increasing agricultural exports to the UAE with the Emirati Minister of Climate Change and Environment Mariam Mheiri, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.Stressing the depth of Jordanian-Emirati relations, Hneifat highlighted the importance of trade and exchanging expertise.
Dr. Safaa Kumari, ICARDA's Virologist and Seed Health Laboratory Manager, and BBC 100 Woman 2020, recently completed an extensive knowledge-sharing tour. Safaa, students, and researchers from academic institutions across the region discussed legume and cereal viral diseases and how to manage and detect major quarantine seed-borne pests (diseases and insects) of legume and cereal crops.
DUBAI, 9th December, 2021 (WAM) The UAE has taken an important step forward in supporting the region to eradicate the red palm weevil - a highly destructive pest that blights palm trees - with the signing of a funding agreement between the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) and Khalifa Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (KCGEB) at UAE University.
Through the funding agreement, MOCCAE will provide financial support to the Red.