International Year of Soils Celebration

A workshop is organised on Thursday by the Department of Soils, Water and Agricultural Engineering (SWAE) at the College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences (CAMS) at the Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) to celebrate “2015 International Year of Soils” on Thursday.

The event is organised under the patronage of Dr. Ahmed Nasser Al Bakri, undersecretary at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

The 68th United Nations (UN) General Assembly has declared 2015 as the International Year of Soils (IYS). The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has been nominated to implement IYS 2015 within the framework of Global Soil Partnership and in collaboration with the governmental and the secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.