TEAM MEMBERS
SAMI AWABDEH
Team leader of the project. Involving with forage quality and silage making
Dr. Sami Awabdeh, (Ph.D), Director of Livestock Research Directorate At NARC, specialist in animal husbandry (ruminant nutrition and forage production). The main research interest is focusing on utilization of Agricultural by-products and production of non-conventional feeds and silage making using low quality water (treated waste water as well as mixed water).
Working with farmers as technology transfer specialist on different areas such as reproduction management and feeding strategy during all farm production stages
LUNA AL-HADIDI
Pilot leader Deir Alla
Head of Irrigation Management Department, PhD in irrigation management, treatment and reuse of non-conventional water resources. Her research focuses on, modern irrigations systems, on-farm water-use efficiency and productivity, treated wastewater reuse, and water and wastewater treatment. She has a background in working with MERC-USAID projects. Currently, she is leading many EU projects like GOTHAM, PROSIM, WISPER working on improving the physical irrigation water quantity and quality delivered to farmers and assessing the impacts of various irrigation technologies on water saving
NAEM MAZAHRIH
Research support in the Pilot area
Expert Researcher in irrigation water management (PhD). Director assessment for research. His main field of expertise are crops water requirements measurements, irrigation management for conventional and non-conventional water resources; soilless culture; water harvesting and supplementary irrigation: climate change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture under arid and semi-arid conditions
AHMAD ALALWAN
Research support in the Pilot area-Field Engineer
Head of the Deir-Alla Research Station Department. Bachelor of agricultural economics and agribusiness management. He is the specialist in the field managing the experimental pilot, irrigation network, protected and open cultivation
NABEEL BANI HANI
Irrigation water management and field data interpretation and reporting
Expert in irrigation water management and environmental studies, PhD in Irrigation. Director of Laboratory. Multidisciplinary researcher in different related topics for soil, irrigation, fertilizer, biosolids and treated wastewater reuse. Management and coordination projects with national and international institutions such as; GIZ, FAO, IAEA and EU for more than 10 years in research and technical support activities
RAWAD SWEIDAN
Data analysis and Software development
Researcher in animal production at Livestock Research Directorate, NARC. Expert in experimental design, statistical analysis, feed proximate analysis and feed formulation programs. Research interest in non-conventional feed and their effects on growth performance of ruminant