Research areas

Research Fields

Climate Control

The greenhouse production sector has highly developed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the recent years. The weather condition in the Kingdom is characterized by long hot summer and limited water recourses. As well, protected cultivation is a necessity for a year-round production of essential ve...

Crop Management

Most of the greenhouses in the Kingdom are still grown in soil. Soil cultivation increases soil-borne diseases and accumulates salinity. Moreover, the present conventional soil-based growing system wastes a lot of freshwater due to runoff and deep percolation.In arid countries, rapid evaporat...

Integrated Pest Management

The extensive use of chemicals to control diseases and pests in open fields and greenhouse cultivation results in complex problems of insect resistance to chemicals, in addition to health and environmental hazards.Crop protection can be achieved by using control measures other than relying ma...

Irrigation And Nutrient Management

Limited water resources pose the main challenge for the Kingdom and other GCC countries. Here, agriculture depends largely on nonrenewable water resources. Levels of water in the deep aquifers have rapidly declined in the last decades. As a matter of fact, the lack of renewable water resource...