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  1. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    November, 1970
    United Arab Emirates, Africa

    The science of "survey" was known to ancient Egyptians. Drawings and

    paintings on the walls of temples and tombs, and writings on papyrus, prove that ancient. Egyptians practiced surveying long ago. Paintings on the temples of Thebe display land-surveyors using linear instruments.

  2. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    November, 1970
    United Arab Emirates, Africa

    Ce fut le premier levé cadastral complet effectué en Egypte sur des bases juridiques et topographiques valables. Les levés antérieurs consistaient à mesurer.

  3. Library Resource
    Soil Survey and Land Classification, Republic of Yemen. Land suitability  for irrigated sorghum (Seifi) in Wadi Mawr (Tihama). cover image
    Reports & Research
    January, 1970
    Yemen

    The purpose of this evaluation is to determine the land suitability of the Wadi Mawr area for the cultivation of (spate) irrigated sorghum under improved traditional management, and to determine the yield response to additional water gifts on various soil types. The evaluation was carried out for the alluvial plain, i.e.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1970
    Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

    One of the striking features of transition from plan to market in CIS agriculture is the

    dramatic shift from the predominance of large corporate farms (kolkhozy and sovkhozy,

    generally referred to as agricultural enterprises) to individual or family agriculture based on a

    spectrum of small farms. The individual sector, combining the traditional household plots and

    the new peasant farms that began to emerge after 1992, accounts for most of agricultural

    production and controls a large share of arable land. This is a dramatic change from the pre-

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1970
    India

    Many countries of the Asia-Pacific region share long land borders across which many consignments of plants, plant products and other regulated articles pass through land border entry points. While long-distance trade in large consignments exists and uses the established regulatory systems, a large proportion of cross border trade concerns the local trade of large numbers of small consignments which require specific border region import regulatory systems. Dealing with the trade of small amounts of plant material is a major problem at many land border entry points.

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