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Category | Supervising agency | Executing agency | Research focus | Head count | FTEs | Year |
Government | Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform | General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research (CGSAR) | Crops, livestock, natural resources | 1207 | 1207.0 | 2003 |
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| General Organization for Tobacco (GOT) | Tobacco | 45 | 45.0 | 2003 |
| Prime Minister | General Organization of Remote Sensing (GORS) | Natural resources | 120 | 30.0 | 2003 |
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| Syrian Atomic Energy Commission of Syria (AECS) | Crops, livestock, fisheries | 58 | 58.0 | 2003 |
| Ministry of Environmental Affairs | Environmental and Scientific Research Center (ESRC) | Natural resources, forestry | 21 | 21.0 | 2003 |
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Nonprofit | — | General Organization for Seed Multiplication (GOSM) | Wheat, other crops | 30.1 | 30.1 | 2003 |
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Universities | University of Damascus | College of Agriculture | Crops, livestock, natural resources | 215 | 53.8 | 2003 |
| University of Aleppo | College of Agriculture | Crops, livestock | 199 | 49.5 | 2003 |
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| Second College of Agriculture | Crops, livestock, forestry, natural resources | 93 | 23.3 | 2003 |
| Al Ba’ath University | College of Agriculture | Crops, livestock, natural resources, | 80 | 20.0 | 2003 |
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| College of Veterinary Medicine | Veterinary sciences | 100 | 25.0 | 2003 |
| University of Teshreen | College of Agriculture | Crops, livestock, | 262 | 65.5 | 2003 |
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| Marine Research Center | Fisheries | 18 | 3.6 | 2003 |
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| — | Agricultural Products Company | Crops | 16 | 4.8 | 2003 |
| — | Debbane & Co | Crops | 8 | 2.4 | 2003 |
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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 Syria, 2006 (PDF 270K)
- ASTI Country brief on Syria, 2006 (Arabic) (PDF 328K)