Personal Information:

Associate Professor of Plant breeding and field crops

Faculty of Agriculture , Sana’a University

Sana’a – Republic of Yemen

Date of Birth: Taiz- 1958

Nationality: Yemeni

Marital Status: Married (Four children)

Address: Maeen

Sana’a – Republic of Yemen

Recent post: Director of Yemeni Genetic Resources Center( YGRC ), Sana’a University

Summary:

Dr. Mohamed Hamed Al-Aswadi is an associate professor in the Crops Department at the Faculty of Agriculture, Sana’a, and he is the Director of Yemeni Genetic Resources Center( YGRC ), Sana’a University

Dr. Aswadi has been working since 1992 in teaching at the university and teaches many specialized subjects For undergraduate and postgraduate students, he has a special interest in the production of hybrids and the development of varieties in different crops, he has a special interest in the coffee crop and the collection of genetic resources in Yemen, and he is a member of the committee The National Technical Committee for Genetic Resources, Member of the Technical Committee for the Release and Approval of Varieties, Member of the Society for Life Sciences and Graduated Received the Presidential Award for funding scientific research

Education:

Academic Qualification:

* 1998-2002

Ph. D. in Field crops (Agriculture-Agronomy/Plant Breeding). Collage of Agriculture, University of Baghdad, IRAQ.

The dissertation entitled: “Diallel cross, Estimation several Genetic Parameters and Genotypic, Phenotypic correlation among Several Characters Maize Inbred Lines”.

*1995-1998

1. Sc. in Field Crops. Collage of Agriculture, Baghdad University- IRAQ.

The Thesis entitled “ Early Testing generation under Different Levels of In breeding”.

*1985

1. Sc. Degree in Agriculture Science (Field crops). Faculty of Agriculture. Aden University, Republic of Yemen.

Experience:

Professional and Work Experience:

1987 Yemen; Ministry of Agriculture, Al-Boun

Development Project.

Task & duties:

1988-1991. Yemen; Agriculture Research & Extension Authority.

Research activities: conducted several scientific field research covering Legumes, Parley, Maize, and Wheat crops.

1992-1994 Sana’a-Yemen: Faculty of Agriculture, Sana’a University.

Duties & tasks: Lecturing the following Courses:

Experimental, Design PlantBreeding, Field crops production, Cereals and Legumes Production.

2002 Yemen: Assistant Professor of field crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Sana’a University, Faculty of Agriculture – Sana’a university. Republic of Yemen.

Duties & Activities: Lecturing the following courses:A) under graduate Levels

Fundamental of plant breeding, statistics and Experimental Design , Breeding of Important field crops,

1. B) Graduate (Advanced courses): Advanced Quantitative Genetic advanced Statistics and Experimental Designs, Advanced plant breeding, Advanced population Genetics.

Supervision: Supervising of some Student graduate students’ researches.

Conferences and Workshops:

• Breeding Methodologies of food and feed legumes. 6 May- 17 May 1990. ICARDA. Aleppo, Syria.
• Food Legume Improvement. I March – 30 June 1989. ICARDA Aleppo. Syria.
• Contributed to several workshops related to Bio-safety and local genetic
• The science conference. Sana’a, Oct 2004.
• Training workshop ( complete transparency and responsibility and better)

Development research centre IDRC Canadian Cairo. November 13 _ 15. 2007.

• Co-authoring of the coffee training curriculum and coffee crop guideline in collaboration with giz
• Many studies and consultations for various parties in the field of coffee
• Participation in the National Coffee Conference in cooperation with USAID.
• Many of posts in the workshops and seminars on bio safety and genetically

modified plants and genetic resources communities.

• Enrichment workshop to discuss the curriculum of vocational education in

agriculture. Sana’a December 2005.

• Workshop on awareness of national Bio-safety, Sana’a, Feb. 2005.
• Workshop to discuss the national framework Bio-safety, Sana’a, May 2005.
• Capacity and support of sustainable agriculture. Dhala 2006.
• The importance of germplasm and local knowledge in sustainable rain fed agriculture. Sana’a March 2006.
• The first national workshop of genetic resources. The agriculture research and extension Sana’a. March 4. 2008.
• Enhancement of agricultural capabilities related to sustainable agriculture, Dhala, Feb. 2006.
• Importance of local knowledge and genetic resources in sustainable agriculture, Sana’a, March 2006.
• Participate in the national symposium ( price rises dimension and their effects and ways address them) Sana’a 2008.
• Participate in the national (Yemeni strategy for food security ) Nov. 2008.
• National Workshop to prepare a strategy to adapt to climate change in rainfed areas 15 to 16 April 2014
• Contribute to the collection of the local genetic resources related to rain fed and livestock project in Sana’a province.
• Project management of traditional food systems and local varieties of grain and its relationship to human health. In collaboration with the Canadian International Centre for Research and Development IDRC.
• Participation in Project Execution of non-exploited plants and less used. In collaboration with IFAD
• Coordinator of rain fed and livestock project ( RALP ) in Sana’a governorate .
• Consultant to implement a project to improve local varieties and hybrids with funding from the Social Fund for Development
• Implementation of a number of workshops related to the maintenance and improvement of local varieties of seeds with farmers in different areas in the four provinces in cooperation and funding of the Social Fund for Development.
• Implementation of a number of field trials in four provinces in order to improve local varieties cooperation and funding of the Social Fund for Development.
• Participate in the preparation of the study production local seeds of hybrid Maize. Ministry of agriculture.
• Participate in implementation of the field analytical study for the development wheat crop in eastern region.
• Technical review of the literature curriculum in institutes of agriculture field crops. Ministry of technical education.
• Carrying out a number of training courses about Coffee and Wheat crops with the ( giz ) organization

Research and scientific papers:

1. Early Generation Testing For Maize under Different Testers and Levels of Inbreeding”. Published in Iraqi Agricultural Scientific Jol., Vol 31. 2000
2. Relation of Early Testing and Inbreeding Generations of Maize. Published in Iraqi Agric. Sci. Vol 30, 1999.
3. Row spacing and seeding rate effects on grain yield and yield components of wheat. Journal of agriculture sciences .Mansoura university .vol 37 no.6,2009.
4. Evaluation of local single hybrids of Maize under Sana’a conditions. Annuals of Agriculture science, Mushtohor. Vol 47 no.2,2009.
5. Evaluation of local hybrid maize ( Zea mays . L) under different environment conditions . Yemeni Journal of Biological Sciences.2009 . 5(2):107 – 121
6. Estimation of the fruit characteristics variation for some tomato genotype in Yemen. Egypt. J. of App.sci, 25( 6A) 2010.