The National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) and Advance Consulting, a premier management consulting and professional development firm, on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to raise efficiency of Jordan's agricultural production and enhance environmental sustainability. The move comes within the framework of the second Dutch agricultural support project for Jordan, in cooperation with Wageningen University in the Netherlands. According to a NARC statement, the project provides agricultural innovations and solutions to multiple challenges facing the Kingdom's agricultural sector, and focuses on involving all stakeholders. NARC Director General, Dr. Khaled Abu Hammour, said the Ministry of Agriculture has been "keen" to enhance applied scientific research and build researcher capacities, in cooperation with local and international partners. Furthermore, he noted the ministry aims to transfer agricultural sciences and modern technology to farmers to serve the Kingdom's agricultural sect or and achieve related comprehensive development. Under the memo, he said farmers will view results of applied agricultural research at the stations in Mafraq's Khalidiyeh region and Karameh in the Jordan Valley on agricultural cycles and use of compost. Meanwhile, the company's regional director, Lamia Dabbas, noted NARC has become an "attractive and feasible" destination for developing scientific research by implementing sound agricultural management, pointing to efforts to enhance cooperation with the center to serve the sector. Source: Jordan News Agency