Mandate/Mission

.   The station is working according to the following main research objectives:

-    Improvement of productivity and quality of some major crops: Potato.

-    Agricultural diversification: study the productivity of industrialized crop (Cotton, Cumin and Soybean).

-    Technology and promoting new feed crops.

-   Introducing winter forage crops.

-    Providing farmers Agricultural information’s & technical support of some major crops (potato, sugar beet, wheat, barley, tomato, forage legumes…..)

Station director: Salah Hajj Hassan

(1)            Agricultural Engineer: Faten Raad.

(1)            Technical Assistant

      (5)            Guards

- Potato Seed production program (seed production techniques, feasibility study, potato  

   production…)

- Introducing new lines of forage legume crops and determination of optimal forage 

   mixture in term of quantity & quality

-         Introducing sugar beet full package technologies.

-         Introducing new technologies in potato production: Fertigation and new   

          varieties..

-         Social and economical studies of northern Bekaa (M&M project).

-         Releasing new barley and forage legume varieties.

-         Several studies concerning Wheat, Sugar beet, potato, small ruminants

           health improvement, feed blocks, urea treatment.  

-         Introducing new feed crop

-         Introducing new technologies  for the usage of  the major agricultural by 

           products

-         Achieving several agricultural studies concerning Baal beck area

      -         Producing 10s of extension leaflets

-  seed increase of barley, wheat and oat varieties

      -   soybean & cotton variety trial