Prolinnova National Workshop in Sudan
The
Prolinnova National Workshop was convened on November 29, 2004 at
the Meridien Hotel - Khartoum in Sudan. This was attended by people
from
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Agricultural Research and Technology Corporation (Wad-Mdani Rearch
Station, Kassala Research Station, El-Obeid Research Station and
El-Fashir Research Station);
- Academic
Institutions: (University of Juba, University of Sudan for Science
and Technology, University of Khartoum and University of Gezira);
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Technolgy Transfer and Extension Administration;
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Pastoraists Union Representative;
- Three
farmers;
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Representatives of three Local NGOs;
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A representative of Save the Children UK Organization;
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Humaniterian Aid Commission;
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Director General of the Natural Resources Section of the Federal
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry;
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Representative of the daily local news letters.
Among
others, the State Minister of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture
and Forestry, Dr. El-Fateh Mohammed Saeed, attended the opening
session and addressed the workshop participants. He mentioned that,
coming from a family who practice agriculture he knows that the
farmers have their own local ideas that should not be ignored, but
we should rather build on their ideas and try to supplement what
they start or what they observe. The programme idea is acknowledged
by all the Scientists from the Agricultural Research and Technology
Corporation who attended the workshop. Dr. Hassan Osman El-Awad
from El-Obied Research Station mentioned that the idea of involving
the farmers and pastoralists in the research ideas is applied at
their research station and also at El-Fashir Research Station. Therefore
one of the workshop recommendations was to apply the idea of the
Farming Systems Research in all other research stations. This approach
will enable the farmers and scientists discuss the research topics
together and come up with what the farmers suggest for the scientists
to work on in order to solve their problems. Dr. Sami Ali Hamid
from the Sudan University of Science and Technology recommended
adding another member to the steering committee from the Academic
Institutions. A full report of the workshop will soon be available
on the website.
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