1st Edition

Changing Rural Systems In Oman The Khabura Project

By Roderic W. Dutton Copyright 1999
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1999. Oman in the decades prior to the 1960s was largely isolated from the rest of the world and its changing economies and societies. With a limited education, little international links, small health systems and government under the then Sultan Said bin Taimur. Rural communities in northern Oman had very little contact with the Sultan's government, which was based in the... Read more

1. INTRODUCTION 2. RURAL COMMUNITIES UNDER CHANGE: DEVELOPMENT OR DISINTEGRATION? 2.1 An idealised pre-oil village community 2.2 Oil-induced change 3. THE KHABURA PROJECT: DESIGN 3.1 Guiding concepts 3.2 Elements of the farm and craft-industrial system 4. THE KHABURA PROJECT: FIELD TRIALS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND TRAINING 4.1 Goats and sheep 4.2 Training paravets 4.3 Dairying 4.4 Spinning and weaving 4.5 Composting dung 4.6 Soils and tillage 4.7 Forage crops 4.8 Irrigation systems 4.9 A rural enterprise: fibre-reinforced-cement channels 4.10 Sheep and goat pens 4.11 Locally made tools and equipment 4.12 Economic analysis of the Project's small-fann system 4.13 Extension and training 4.14 Towards a new rural production system? 5. FROM A SUB-REGIONAL TO A NATIONAL PROGRAMME 5.1 Integrating with government 5.2 Wadi Quriyat Animal Breeding and Applied Research Centre 5.3 The Goat Multiplication and Development Project 5.4 A national programme but too narrow a vision 6. PROSPECT AND RETROSPECT 6.1 Prospect: integration through a Rural Development Centre 6.2 Retrospect: evaluating the experience.

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Roderic W. Dutton