THE PERFORMANCE OF COOL SEASON VEGETABLE CROPS GROWN UNDER ARID CONDITIONS IN SAUDI ARABIA

This paper discusses the feasibility of growing cool season crops under hot arid conditions in Jizan, Saudi Arabia.

Several cultivars of different vegetable kinds were tried out such as:

Leafy vegetables	: lettuce, cabbage and parsley
Root vegetables	: radish, carrot, turnip and table beets
Flowering vegetables	: broccoli and cauliflower
Leguminous vegetables	: beans, broad beans and peas.

The preliminary results indicated that cool season crops could be successfully grown under Jizan conditions if they are planted during the proper time of planting.

V Africa Symposium on Horticultural Crops

Zidan E. Abdel-Al

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1978.84.12