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Curriculum Vitae  

 

Name: Mr.Salah Hajj Hassan

Date of Birth: 1961

Marital Status: Married

Tel: 961(0 8) 900037/47   Fax: 961(08)900077      

Email: mmlebanon@hotmail.com

 

 

1984 BS in Agriculture: American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

 

1987 MS in field crop production: American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

 

2000: starting PhD research work on producing F1 sweet corn lines (jointly with the university of Damascus school of agriculture and the directorate of research in Syria.

 

1984-1987 Senior Research assistant in plant production department at the American University of Beirut.

 

1984-1987 Conducting the Applied Research work in the crop production department at AREC ( AUB- Farm ).

 

1987-1990 Coordinator of the student training program at the Faculty of Agriculture Lebanese University.

 

1990-1991. Teaching Horticulture at the faculty of Agriculture Lebanese University.

 

1991: Joining LARI on a TCP project with FAO.

 

1992-1995. Responsible of plant protection Laboratory in diagnosing and testing plant diseases at the Agricultural Research Institute-Tal Amara.

 

1991-2003. Head of crop production department at the Agricultural Research Institute-Tal Amara.

 

1995. Coordinator of  the Mashreq/Maghreb project (technology transfer project on crop livestock integration).

 

1994: Representing LARI in a joint Research program with ICARDA in testing and introducing new forage legume lines.

 

1994: Representing LARI in a joined work with ICARDA for using Medics and trifolium to improve Marginal lands in the Bekaa valley.

 

1995: Representing LARI in a six -year  rotation Experiment with AUB and ICARDA at AREC.

 

1998 :Head of the sugar beet delivery committee.

 

2001: head of the wheat delivery committee.

 

 

Present Occupations at LARI:

 

Director of Kfardane station.

 

 

Publications and scientific papers:

  

-         Influence of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium ratio on yield and quality of potato 1999.

 

-         Influence du stress hydrique et du niveau de la fertilisation azotée sur la croissance, le rendement et la qualité technologique de la betterave à sucre 1999.

 

-         Aspects of nitrogen fertilizer recovering and balance in fertigation potato in central Bekaa, Lebanon-October 2000( international and symposium on nuclear techniques in integrated plant, nutrient water and soil management (FAO).

 

-         Water use efficiency  of spring and drip irrigated potatoes in central Bekaa valley in Lebanon.

 

-         The prospect of using urea/sesame hull in feed blocks : effects on the cost of fattening Awassi lambs 2000.

 

-         Effects of supplementation by minerals and vitamins or common vetch (i.e.VICIA) hay to wheat straw on lambing rate in yearling awassi sheep 2000.

 

-         The potential of agro-industrial byproducts in Lebanon as feeds for livestock 1998.

-         transformation of property rights institutions in Lebanon in the proceedings of the international conference on agricultural growth, sustainable resource management and poverty alleviation in the low rainfall  areas of west Asia and North Africa, Sept. 1999.

 

-         Grass land improvement by reseeding native legumes and protection from grazing in the Bekaa valley –Lebanon, 1999

 

-         Rural, rapid appraisal for the rural conditions and transformation in northen bekaa –lebanon  (Deir El Ahmar, Aarsal and Zeghrin communities)1999.

 

-         Local communities and development, general aspects of the local community institutions of Aarsal and Deir El Ahmar 2000.

 

Extension bulletins: (Arabic)

 

-Potato production in Lebanon,1997

 

-Rizhomanie disease on Sugar beet and means to prevents it 1997.

 

-Sugar beet  production in Lebanon 1997.

 

-Monogerm Sugar beet production technologies 1998.

 

Training:

 

1990: Training course on plant protection with CEHAM Bari – ITALY.

 

1991: Training course on plant disease diagnosis at Fanar Station.

 

1991: Training course on Laboratory work in plant protection Laboratory at the American University of Beirut – plant protection.

 

Participation in international Meetings and workshops:

 

1997 : international conference on agricultural growth sustainable resource management and poverty alleviation in the low rainfall areas of West Asia and North Africa.

 

1997: 9th meeting of the Mediterranean sub-net work of the FAO-CIHEAM inter regional cooperative research and development network  on pastures and fodder crops ( Badajoz- Spain).

 

96-97-98-99-2000: Technical regional workshop on crop livestock integration in Tunisia, Morocco, Lebyia, Iraq and Syria.

 

1991: CIP workshop on Potato tuber moth at CIP Regional center Tunisian.

 

1992: Mashreq project. ICARDA, Regional workshop on range land improvement, Jordan.

 

1995: Mashreq project, ICARDA, workshop – Amara – Jordan.

 

Reports and Surveys:

 

1993: Survey on the Major pests of the Major crops in Bekaa Valley.

 

1993: Field survey reported at LARI on major pests of Bekaa Valley.

 

1994: Report on  some of the major crops in the Bekaa plain.

 

1993-1994: Sampling and analysis of major pests of vineyards, vegetables and Sugar beet.

 

1994: Identification of fruit abnormalities in northern Bekaa.

 

1992-1995: Testing and analysis of plant samples  at Tal – Amara Laboratory..

 

1995: Initiation of Mashreq / Maghreb activities in Lebanon

 

1992-2001: Field trials in selecting new varieties of potatoes and Sugar beet for high yields and diseases resistance.