Sudan Journal of Desertification Research

 

 

  

Printed by:

Khartoum University Press

P.O. Box 321, Khartoum, Sudan

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Editorial Board

 

Prof. Ibrahim Abdalla Ayed (Editor– in–Chief)

Prof. Mukhtar Ahmed Mustafa (Associate Editor)

Dr. Eltayeb Elhag Ali Ahmed (Managing Editor)

Editors

Prof. Hamid Osman Burhan

Prof. Abdelmohsin Hassan El-Nadi

Prof. Ali Taha Ayoub

Prof. Salaheldin Goda

Prof. Ahmed Ali Mahdi

Prof. Ahmed Suliman El-Wakeel

Prof. Mubarak Abdelrahman Abdalla

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

1  

 

Identification and Mapping of Abandoned Agricultural Land Using Remote Sensing Imagery; Gadarif Region, Sudan

Hussein Mohamed Sulieman

 

 

 

15

 

Monitoring Vegetation Degradation as Indicator of Desertification in Sudan Using NDVI data (1993-2003)

Nadir Abdul Hameed Mohamed Etegani Mohamed Salih

Anwar Sheikheldeen Abdu

 

 

28

Determinants of Adoption of Environment Conservation Innovations by Agro-Pastoralists in the Central Butana Region, Sudan

 

Awadalla Mohamed Saeed and Abdelmoneim Awadalla Babiker

 

 

49

Assessment and Mapping of Wind Erodibility of Aridisols and Entisols in the Nile State, Sudan

 

Abdelmonim Ahmed Hassan and Mukhtar Ahmed Mustafa

 

 

62

Water Use Efficiencies of Gezira, Rahad and New Halfa Irrigated Schemes under Sudan Dryland Condition

 

Ali Widaa Mohammed Elamin Amir Bakheit Saeed and Adam Boush

 

73

The Impact of Irrigation Frequency and Farmyard manure on Wheat Productivity on a Saline-sodic Soil in Dongola,

the Northern State, Sudan

Elmoiez Lidin Allah Mohamed Fadul and Mukhtar Ahmed Mustafa

 

 

 

 

88

 

Analysis of Land Use/Land Cover Changes in Elodaiya, Kordofan, Sudan, Using Remote Sensing and GIS

 

Adam Yousif Mahmoud Atia, Ibrahim Saeed Ibrahim,   Mohamed Salih Dafalla, and Elmar Csaplovics

 

108

 

Evaluation of Seeding Grasses and Legumes in Mixtures and in Pure Stands with Chemical Fertilization on Deteriorated Rangelands in Blue Nile State, Sudan

 

EL Tom Elsadig Ali Nawal Bashir Abbas and Salah Eltom Elameen

 

125

 

A Note on Seed Germination of Different Genotypes of Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) Under Different Dilutions of Red Sea Water

 

Eltayeb Elhag Ali Ahmed and Hayder Yousuf.Ahmed.Yousuf

 

131

A Note on the Effect of Green and Farmyard Manures on Wheat (Triticum aestivum – L) Yield in the Desert Plain Soils of the New Hamdab scheme, Northern State, Sudan

 

Imran Ali Ahmed, Muawia El-Bedawi Hamad and Habiballa Abdelhafiz Mohamed

 

139

A Note on the Effect of Heat Stress on Growth and Fruiting of Three Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) Landraces from Sudan*

 

Aida Ali Elsharief, Eltayeb Elhag Ali Ahmed and Mustafa Mohamed Ali Elballa

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