Compost tea in Lebanese vineyards: soil health before and after
In Lebanese vineyards, soil degradation is often visible before it appears in the harvest. A field may still produce…
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Biochar in Lebanese soil: nutrient retention before and after
In Lebanese fields, soil degradation often becomes visible before it appears in a laboratory report. Irrigation water…
Drought resistant crops: selecting varieties for Lebanese soil
In the Bekaa Valley, drought rarely announces itself with a single failed harvest. It appears first as thinner cereal…
Olive grove mulching: soil moisture changes before and after
In Lebanese olive groves, the first visible sign of water stress is not always a wilted tree. More often, it is a hard…
Cover crops for Lebanese soil: choosing the right species
Walk into a Lebanese orchard after the first heavy December downpour, and the water leaving the field tells you…
Soil organic matter in orchards: transformation before and after
In a Lebanese orchard, soil degradation rarely begins with a dramatic failure. It starts more quietly: a crust after…
Compost tea for Lebanese farms: choosing the right application
In Lebanese vegetable fields, the pressure on soil is rarely caused by one problem. Repeated cultivation, low organic…
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Southern Lebanon Agriculture Faces Crisis as Conflict Destroys 22.5% of Farmland
's Agriculture Minister Nizar Hani briefed President Joseph Aoun on Thursday that military attacks have damaged more…
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Lebanon’s Shrinking Formal Economy and the Burden on Agricultural Cooperatives
The registered membership of the Beirut and Mount Lebanon Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture has reportedly…
Biochar Production: A Low-Cost Farm Implementation Plan
In Lebanese agriculture, a substantial share of farm biomass is treated as a disposal problem: orchard prunings are…
Beneficial Insect Hedgerows: A 4-Stage Farm Project
Every season, the same conversation surfaces in our cooperative meetings: how do we keep pests off our orchards without…
Organic Vineyard Conversion: A Lebanese Field Roadmap
A vineyard does not become organic when the farmer stops spraying. It becomes organic when the whole production system…
Cover crops for Lebanese orchards: an implementation plan
In Lebanese orchards, bare soil is not a neutral starting point. On sloping olive, grape, cherry, peach, and other…
No-till transition in Bekaa: soil health before and after
In the Bekaa Valley, soil degradation is no longer an abstract agronomic concern. It is visible in the way fields crust…
Compost types for Lebanese farms: a selection guide
Lebanese agriculture accounts for approximately 60–70% of the country’s annual freshwater diversions, while the country…
Organic mulch: instant water savings for Bekaa farms
In the Bekaa Valley, irrigation pumps start before sunrise and often run until the last furrow is dark with water. Our…
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Lebanon’s Agricultural Sector Faces Dual Crisis of Conflict Damage and Severe Drought
The fields are telling the story before any policy brief does. According to a joint report by Lebanon's Ministry of…
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How Renewed Conflict Is Crippling Lebanon’s Agricultural Export Cooperatives
The World Bank's Summer 2026 Lebanon Economic Monitor projects a 6.4% economic contraction this year as renewed…
Olive pomace biochar: a four-stage soil health project
The olive harvest gives our farms something beautiful and something difficult at the same time. We press the fruit for…
Pheromone traps in apple orchards: pest control shifts
For Lebanese apple cooperatives, pest control is rarely a question of choosing one product and applying it across every…
Cover crop selection for Lebanese farms: a regional guide
Cover crop selection for Lebanese farms is not a seed-catalogue decision. It is a water, soil, and harvest-timing…
Rainwater harvesting in the Bekaa: a pond construction plan
The Bekaa Valley cannot afford to treat water storage as an optional farm upgrade. The valley covers approximately…
Lebanese no-till transition: soil moisture before and after
Walk through a freshly plowed field in the Bekaa Valley in late June and you will hear it before you see it: the faint…
Lebanese permaculture: 5 techniques for dry climates
Lebanese agriculture consumes approximately 60–70% of the country’s annual freshwater diversions. That number changes…
Pesticide reduction: 5 organic methods for Lebanese orchards
Lebanese orchards operate against a baseline that would trigger compliance reviews in most European jurisdictions…
Organic farming: 5 ways to avoid soil depletion in Lebanon
In Lebanon, soil depletion is not a distant environmental problem. It is already visible in the fields: crusted…
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Lebanon and Bulgaria Forge New Strategic Partnership for Agricultural Trade
Lebanon's agriculture minister met Bulgaria's ambassador and secured cabinet authorization to sign a new agricultural…
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Lebanon’s Grape Surplus: Ministry Tackles Market Pressures and Import Competition
According to the Lebanon Ministry of Agriculture, the sector's higher grape production has now landed on the official…
Green manure selection for dry Lebanese soils
In dry Lebanese soils, green manure is not a decorative sustainability measure. It is a water-management and…
Clay pot irrigation: easy water saving for Bekaa farms
In the Bekaa Valley, where annual rainfall swings from roughly 700 mm near Qaraoun Lake down toward 250 mm on the…
Olive pomace mulch: easy moisture lock for dry soil
In Lebanon’s dry farming seasons, the soil can lose useful moisture long before the crop shows visible stress. The…
Compost tea brewing: a setup plan for Bekaa farms
A failed compost tea batch does not merely waste water and compost. It can turn into an anaerobic liquid with the wrong…
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Lebanon Shifts Agricultural Fire Strategy Toward Proactive Land Management
According to L'Orient Today, the Ministry of Agriculture has now issued a circular asking the country to move its…
Apple orchard IPM transition: pest control before and after
In Lebanese apple orchards, pesticide reduction is no longer a question of choosing between conventional farming and an…
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Why Sustainability Claims Fail Without Robust Farm Data Tracking
A new study published in Science, as reported by Mirage News, points to a basic weakness in sustainability claims…
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Systematic Wildfires Devastate Southern Lebanon’s Farmland and Forests
As reported by The Guardian, firefighters and environmental groups across southern Lebanon have accused the Israeli…
Terrace cover cropping: a soil erosion plan for Lebanon
Lebanon’s mountainous farmland can lose 50 to 70 tons of soil per hectare per year through water erosion. On a terraced…
Greenhouse pest control with simple sticky traps
A greenhouse can lose crop quality long before a pest population looks dramatic. A few whiteflies resting beneath…
Organic olive transition: a step-by-step orchard project
An organic olive farming transition in Lebanon is not a matter of replacing one spray with another and printing a new…
Soil health restoration: 5 organic methods for Bekaa
The 2022 water test from the Al Ammiq River came back at 39.8 mg/L of nitrate. That is not a number you negotiate with…
Sheet mulching: quick weed control for organic farms
There's a moment every spring when our growers gather at the co-op yard and the same conversation finds its way back to…
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How the CIMMYT and WFP Partnership Reshapes Global Standards for Smallholder Farmers
According to ReliefWeb, the partnership will channel climate-resilient agricultural practices into the hands of growers…
Irrigation System Selection for Bekaa Valley Farms
The Bekaa Valley holds 42% of Lebanon's cultivated land and over 70% of its potato acreage. Sixty-five percent of that…