Land and Water Department

Vision of the Department

Vision of the Department is based on vision of the Faculty.
It is to be a distinguished academically accredited Faculty in general agricultural production at the local, regional and international levels, and to offer educational, research and social service to students and community members in the field of land and water.

Mission of the Department

Department of Land and Water at Faculty of Agriculture at Tanta University seeks to prepare qualified cadres in order to maximize the return of Land and Water Unit, to narrow the food gap, to disseminate awareness and knowledge about sustainable agricultural development, to keep the environment and to prepare applied research for serving and developing community at the local and international levels and achieving active participation between community and the Department through symposiums, inquiries and disseminating awareness for farmers to maximize agricultural production.

• To develop curricula in the undergraduate and postgraduate stages in order to prepare graduates who are able to improve agricultural production to cope with the increase of population and to narrow the food gap.
• To give interest to skills during development of curricula so as to qualify graduates to labor market requirements.
• To prepare cadres qualified for competition, to improve graduate’s level of quality according to requirements of international labor market and to give interest to environmental affairs, development and community service to solve the problems of pollution and deterioration related to land and water sciences.
• To increase performance qualify of teaching staff and assistant staff at the Department so as to raise efficiency of the educational process and to gain accreditation.
• To direct scientific research at the Department to community service and development and to the sustainable vision of the surrounding ecological system.
• To encourage international publications so as to develop scientific research, to raise competition at the international level and to assure world quality.
• To cooperate with all specializations and research centers in Egypt and abroad to serve and develop environment and community.
• To rationalize use of water, to minimize or prevent pollution of land and water and to draw up integrated fertilization programs in order to maximize the return of land and water.
• To use remote sensing technologies and geographic information systems (GIS) to study and minimize deterioration of agricultural land and to achieve agricultural sustainability.
• To use specialized mathematical models to solve local, regional and global problems.

Address: Land and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Gharbia Governorate
Telephone No.: 040/3353335
 Telex: 040/3359363
Fax: 040/3359363