1. NARS-ICT Status Report Sultanate of Oman May, 2009

2. His Majesty’s speech – ICT Highlight 11 Nov 2008 Information technology and communications have now become the main elements that move forward the development process in this third millennium; therefore, we have accorded our attention to finding a national citizens in this domain with the aim of further developing e-government services. We are closely following the important steps that we have made in this regard. We call upon all government institutions to speedily enhance their performance, and to facilitate their services, by applying digital technology in order to usher the Sultanate into the constantly evolving spheres for applying knowledge .

7. Agriculture in Oman

8. Cultivated Area & Production Crop 2006 2007 2008 Production (1000 ton.) Area (1000 Fadden) Production (1000 ton.) Area (1000 Fadden) Production (1000 ton.) Area (1000 Fadden) Veg. crops 108.05 11.19 130.36 12.26 141.07 14.16 Fruit crops 313 87.88 311.77 88.26 319.71 93.25 Field crops 25.2 18.19 25.18 16.95 24.57 16.28 Fodder crops 564.3 34.21 608.74 36.51 662.50 40.22 Total 1010.55 151.47 1076.05 153.98 1147.85 163.91

9. (NARS)

10. Agriculture & livestock Research Agricultural & Livestock Research PLANT PRODUCTION RESEARCH CENTER PLANT PROTECTION RESEARCH CENTER SOIL & WATER RESEARCH CENTER DATE PALM RESEARCH CENTER LIVESTOCK RESEARCH CENTER VETERNIARY RESEARCH CENTER

11. Research Capacity in NARS

14. Internal Server

19. Sultan Qaboos University The Centre for Information Systems The Main Library has recently moved to the new centre, where there is seating for 2000 and space for over 600,000 books and periodicals. Access : www.squ.edu.om/lib/index.html

20. Electronic Resources Rises in SQU Library 2003 2008 Databases 21 27 Electronic full text journal 1 14 Titles 250 13,000 Book holdings 173,009 300,000 Audio-visual items 12,605 14,500

22. The End Thank You