A. Assaf This is Me

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1. 1. 1999 Program

   www.aaic.org/99progrm.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 10/17/1999   Last Visited: 9/17/2000

   Said A. Assaf, Ph.D
   
   Head, Arafat National Scientific Center for Applied Research (ANSAR), Ramallah, Palestine, P.O.Box 903, The West Bank
   
   kassaf@planet.edu
   
   Jojoba was introduced to the West Bank in 1983 by the author as an appropriate technology transfer program of the Arab Scientific Institute for Research and Transfer of Technology (ASIR). Lack of plant propagation facilities dictated use of seedlings from seeds. The genetic variant of jojoba trees most suitable for its dry-farming in the hilly and marginal lands of that arid region were selected for obtaining the cuttings used for seedlings propagation. The naturally multi-stem jojoba bushes were yearly pruned to only one or two stems forcing these bushes to adapt and form trees which are planted 3.5 meters apart. Most male plants - which are made to be 15 % of the total B are only slightly pruned.