The College of Agriculture at the University of Basrah, in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), within the activities of the project funded by the European Union, held a training course on manufacturing biochar enhanced with nutrients from locally produced organic waste on one of the tomato farms in Safwan.
The course aimed to improve agricultural practices and develop the value of tomato and palm farms in Basra Governorate. It is the first in a series of global cooperation courses with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The course in which Professor Dr. Muhammad Abdullah Abdul Karim and the teacher Dr. Amin Hussein Jabal lectured included a theoretical lecture given in the building of the Safwan Agricultural Cooperative Society in the Safwan district. It lasted for two hours, during which the importance of the project and the benefit gained from it were explained, and the manufacturing steps were learned in the presence of a number of Farmers, agricultural engineers, and the organization’s coordinators, then moved to one of the tomato farms in the Safwan district, where the project was implemented, and the steps of manufacturing and preparing the product from its raw materials were reviewed in detail in a practical manner by carrying out a yellow experiment of the manufacturing steps in front of the audience.
