Country Profile - Jordan
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Category | Supervising agency | Executing agency | Research focus | Head count | FTEs | Year |
Government | Ministry of Agriculture | National Center for Agricultural Research and Technology Transfer (NCARTT) | Crops, livestock, water, other natural resources | 220 | 154.0 | 2005 |
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Universities | Al Balqa' Applied University | Faculty of Agricultural Technology | N.A. | 27 | 4.1 | 2003 |
| Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) | Faculty of Agriculture | Crops, livestock, natural resources | 55 | 10.9 | 2003 |
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| Faculty of Veterinary Science | Veterinary sciences | 29 | 7.3 | 2004 |
| University of Jordan (UoJ) | Faculty of Agriculture | Crops, livestock | 120 | 60.0 | 2004 |
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| Water Environment Research and Study Center (WERSC) | Natural resources | 12 | 6.0 | 2005 |
| Mu’tah University | Faculty of Agriculture | Crops, livestock | 46 | 4.6 | 2003 |
| University of Jerash | Faculty of Agriculture | n.a. | 42 | 4.2 | 2000 |
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Private | — | Hassan Farhana Farms | Crops | 1 | 0.7 | 2003 |
| — | Dr. Kamel Al Rudeida Farms | Olives | 1 | 0.1 | 2003 |
| — | Muneer Sakhtian Group | n.a. | 1 | 0.1 | 2003 |
| — | Unifert Company | n.a. | 7 | 4.9 | 2003 |
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| Modern Company for Fertilizer Production | Fertilizer | 3 | 0.9 | 2003 |
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| Al-Mawared Company | Apples, other crop | 2 | 1.0 | 2003 |
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| Keena Company for Agricultural Equipment and Materials | n.a. | 1 | 1.0 | 2003 |
Source: ICARDA, FAO, AARINENA, and CIHEAM. The National Agricultural Research Systems in the West Asia and North Africa Region. (J. Casas, M. Solh, and H. Hafez, eds.) Aleppo, Syria: ICARDA, December 1999.
- ASTI Country brief on Jordan, 2006 (PDF 266K)