SUSTAINABLE CROP MANAGEMENT MODEL IN SYRIAN STRATEGIC CROPS THE EXPERIENCE OF THE COOPERATION PROJECT RATIONALIZATION OF RAS EL AIN IRRIGATION SYSTEMS

This paper reports the main results of an integrated initiative of international technical cooperation in agriculture financed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and jointly implemented by the CIHEAM MAI Bari and the Syrian Ministries of Irrigation and of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform. The project entitled: “Rationalization of Ras El Ain Irrigation Systems” started in January 2005 and ended in March 2008. The project was aimed at...