Salinity seminar Baghdad : FAO

1. Introduction. 2. Acknowledgements. 3. Editors absract. 4 Addresses. 4.1 Welcome address of his excellency the minister of irrigation. 4.2 Address of Dr.H.M.Horning on behalf of the director-general of FAO. 4.3 Closing addresses. 5. Working papers. 5.1 Present and potential salt affected and waterlogged areas in the countries of the Near East in relation to agriculture. 5.2 Problems of sampling, analysing and mapping salt affected soils. 5.3 Dynamics of salts in the soil-water systems. 5.4 Reclamation and management of salt affected soils. 5.5 Contribution of the joint FAO/IAEA division of atomic energy in Food and agricultureto improving water use efficiency. 5.6 Irrigation and drainage in relations to salinity and waterlogging 5.7 Recent materials and techniques for the construction of horizontal subsurface drains-summary of a lecture 5.8 Quality of irrigation water limits of use and prediction of long terms effects. 5.9 Salt tolerance and crop management on salt affected soils. 5.10 A brief of the applied research programme for the Near East Region. 6. Reports of participating countries. 6.1 Iraq. 6.2 Cyprus. 6.3 Iran 6.4 Jordan 6.5 Lebanon. 6.6 Pakistan 6.7 Sudan 6.8 Syria 6.9 Turkey. 6.10 United Arab Republic. 6.11 People's democratic republic of Yemen. 7. Summary of the discussions and recommendations. 7.1 Present and potential salt affected areas in the Near East Region and their impact on the agricultural economy. 7.2 Sampling,analysing and mapping of salt affected soils. 7.3 Dynamics of salt in the soil-water system. 7.4 Reclamination of salt affected soils. 7.5 Management of salt affected soils. 7.6 Irrigation and Drainage. 7.7 Use of saline water for reclamination. 7.8 Organization of land reclamination. 7.9 Training. 7.10 The Near East regional applied research programme. 7.11 Summary of recommendations. 7.12 Annexs:Tentative guidelines for sampling,analysing and mapping salt affected soils. 8. Summary of field trips. 8.1 Institute for applied research on natural resources,Abu Ghraib. 8.2 The greater Mussaiab project. 8.3 The diyala irrigation project. 9. Seminar agenda.

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