extension fields and indicators for agricultural development for the Libyan Ministry of Agriculture technicians and
post-independence Libyan farmers (i.e., the 1950s and
1960s) (Farler 2006).
2.2.3 Development of Education in the Field
of Soil Sciences and Resources
By the end of the 1950s, the Libyan engineers began to hold
Bachelor's degrees in agricultural sciences in the fields of
plant protection, crops, horticulture, agricultural economics,
but in soil science, the first batch of Libyan scientists to
obtain their Bachelor's degrees in the field of soil was in
1969, namely Khaled Ben Mahmoud, Abualqasim Albaruniu, Abdeljalil Youssef, from Cairo University, and Sadiq
Ben Yazid from Baghdad University (Fig. 2.7a–d).
In 1966, the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of
Libya in Tripoli was launched. Initially, it contained four
main departments, one of which was the department of Soil
and Water, which was founded in 1967. The Soil and Water
department started to teach a number of courses, which
Fig. 2.5 Old irrigated farm
Fig. 2.6 Olive trees integrated
with wheat or barley (Rainfed
System)
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