Country Profile - Syrian Arab Republic

 

 

 

 

Researchers

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

 

 

General Organization for Tobacco (GOT)

Tobacco

45

45.0

2003

 

Prime Minister

General Organization of Remote Sensing (GORS)

Natural resources

120

30.0

2003

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nonprofit

General Organization for Seed Multiplication (GOSM)

Wheat, other crops

30.1

30.1

2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

College of Veterinary Medicine

Veterinary sciences

100

25.0

2003

 

University of Teshreen

College of Agriculture

Crops, livestock,

262

65.5

2003

 

 

Marine Research Center

Fisheries

18

3.6

2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Private

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agricultural Products Company

Crops

16

4.8

2003

 

Debbane & Co

Crops

8

2.4

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.

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