University of Basra participates in the 5th Baghdad International Water Conference
Dr. Farqad Murtada Hamid and Dr. Asim Nasser Darraj from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Basra participated in the Fifth Baghdad International Water Conference, which is hosting the 11th International Committee for Irrigation and Puncture (ICIP) Precision Irrigation Conference. The conference was held at the Babylon Rotana Hotel from May 24-26, 2025 under the patronage of His Excellency the Prime Minister, Eng. Mohammed Shi'a Al-Sudani, by presenting two papers on sustainable agriculture, entitled a pioneering engineering field study to develop a smart irrigation system using Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to improve water use efficiency and promote sustainable agriculture in the southern regions of Iraq, and a practical comparison between surface and subsurface drip irrigation systems to measure their impact on crop productivity and water use efficiency.
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