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Table 6 Summary of the plans made by formal and informal organizations and urban experts on empowering farmers for food security

From: The role of rural–urban linkages in perceived environmental effects of farmers for participation in sustainable food security plans

Name of organization

Plans and actions are taken to empower farmers for food security

Ministry of Agriculture Jihad and Agricultural Engineering Organization

Herbal products

Setting up training plan workshops in the field of greenhouse products, medicinal plants and production of aloe vera, etc

Training plan on how to produce a healthy product and cultivate quinoa (vegetable caviar)

Training plan in the production of rosewater, saffron, herbal medicines, cultivation of flowers and medicinal oils

Implementing several other projects in this regard

Rural industries

Training plan to expand the agricultural conversion and complementary industries and turn traditional greenhouses into semi-industrial and industrial ones

Training plan for the promotion and development of the poultry industry;

Plans for converting of traditional greenhouses to semi-industrial and industrial;

Etc

Agricultural promotion

Training plans in the field of agricultural mechanization, pest and plant disease control plan, livestock and poultry diseases

Training and promotion in various agricultural, horticultural, livestock projects

Training and promotion of various mushroom, bee, saffron, and greenhouse cultivation projects

Training and promotion of the plan to create and expand micro-funds for rural men and women,

Etc

Agriculture and horticulture

Training plan for producing various vegetables and summer crops, flowers and ornamental plants and greenhouses

Plan for providing a special pistachio harvesting machine in a mechanized way to support and increase pistachio production and teach how to use it

Training plan to prevent the decline in crop yields in times of drought crisis, with proper implementation of mechanization operations

Etc

Preserve plants

Training plan for grain pest control (Spraying wheat and barley infected fields with the recommended pesticides, control of pests and weeds)

Training plan to use a hygrometer and thermometer for products

Etc

Ministry of Interior (State secretary and Governorate

Plan to provide facilities and training for the opening of edible mushroom breeding units

Construction of carpet weaving workshops and recruitment of trainees;

Etc

Technical and Vocational Education

Providing free training in technical, service and agricultural fields;

Public training centers in the fields of agricultural workshops, construction industries, leather goods production, business management, and handicrafts

Etc

  1. Source: Research findings, 2020