Omani expert honoured for water research

(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Muscat- Dr Saif bin Ali bin Salim al Khamisi, head of Field Crops Research Department at the Directorate General of Agricultural and Animal Research has been honoured for research in water.

Dr Khamisi has received the Arab World in the Union of Arab Scientific Research Councils (UASRC) Award for 2016. His research was titled, 'Proposed Use of Treated Water and Groundwater in Crop Cycles'.

Dr Khamisi said, 'The research is a mathematical modeling and calculations through which we calculate the quantities of treated water we need and the areas of land that can be covered through crop cycle during the whole year.' He added that this research will help decision-makers work in the right direction to expand the use of treated water in agriculture.

The UASRC Secretariat General organised a ceremony to distribute the award of UASRC in the Sudanese capital Khartoum under the patronage of Dr Sumaya Abu Kashwa, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Sudan.

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