FAO organizes an exchange field visit to observe applied In-situ water harvesting techniques in Palestine

20 October 2022_The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized an exchange field visit which aimed to increase the participants’ capacity and knowledge about the in-situ water harvesting techniques regarding its design, construction, data monitoring and data collection process to observe the In-situ water harvesting techniques that have been implemented there.

This field visit which took place on the 20^th of October 2022 under the regional project “Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Water Efficiency/Productivity and Water Sustainability in NENA Countries”, included a group of 20 leader women farmers from Al Fara’a Women Cooperative, Misilya Women Cooperative and Tubas Society Cooperative in Tubas and Jenin governorates, as well as five newly graduating agronomists whom visited olive orchards in Faqua’a and Tayaseer localities.

The participants have also met the owner of targeted farms, where they heard from them their experiences about implementing these techniques in their olive orchards and its positive initial results on olive trees and productivity. Finally, the participants showed thanks to all the project partners for giving them this good opportunity to visit these applied techniques and awarded them such knowhow to be able to replicate it in their lands.

This activity is implemented under the regional project “Implementing the 2030 Agenda for water efficiency/productivity and water sustainability in NENA countries”, under the Water Scarcity Initiative. This project is funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).