Department of Field Crops

The Department of Field Crops is one of the main departments in the Faculty of Agriculture at Latakia University. It primarily covers the sciences dealing with field crops, including cereal and legume crops, in terms of their cultivation and handling in the soil before and after planting, in addition to methods of breeding and improving field crops with wide adaptation to the different agricultural environments in which the variety is grown, as well as addressing medicinal and aromatic plants and inventorying the biodiversity of field crops spread in the Syrian Arab Republic and the world.

The department covers more than (30) thirty courses taught in the various years of study at the faculty.

The department includes (14) fourteen faculty members who undertake the teaching of all the department's subjects, in addition to (8) eight acting staff members and five teaching assistants, three of whom are on scholarships to France, China, and Russia, and two female teaching assistants who are in the process of being sent.

- The number of engineers in the department is only three engineers who assist in the teaching process – the practical part.

- The number of laboratories in the department is five laboratories, and there are two laboratories for scientific research.