New Plants for the BAU Research Center for Environment and Development – Bekaa Site
10 June 2013The BAU Research Center for Environment and Development (RCED) – Bekaa Site – has received seven new kinds of plants that were cultivated from seeds presented by Green Hand in the RCED Herbal Garden. Thus, the total number of plants has reached 10, including previous cultivations, as well as sage, saffron, thyme and oregano.
The process of cultivation was supervised by Dr. Fouad Saad, agricultural expert at BAU, with the participation of the school children in the region. These new plants are part of the Lebanese activities in the second International Week of the Fascination of Plants Day (2013), organized by the European Plant Science Organization (EPSO).
The RCED launched the “Promoting and Protecting the Cultivation of Medical and Aromatic Plants” project with the cultivation of 30 kinds of aromatic herbs. The project aims at the preservation of the plants endemic to Lebanon and exploring the possibility of cultivating some non-endemic herbs as alternative crops. It also aims to prepare sustainable agricultural protocols to cultivate these herbs in Bekaa in collaboration with concerned and active authorities. This study would be accompanied by scientific research at the academic and practical levels