The Department of Biology, in collaboration with the Continuing Education Unit at the College of Science at the University of Baghdad, held a lecture entitled “Small plants: their nutritional features, benefits and cultivation” in the presence of a number of students, professors and those concerned with the agricultural and food affairs.
The lecture aimed to introduce popular small vegetables, which are considered as super foods because they contain a high percentage of vitamins and nutrients, which can be an easily accessible source of fresh and nutritious foods and can be easily grown in small indoor areas or in more sustainable indoor areas than traditional crop production. The lecture, presented by Dr. Ansam Ghazi Abdel Halim, who highlighted that the small vegetables are eaten by more than 60% of the world’s malnourished population, including developed countries, densely populated areas, who control the quality and reasonable prices of available food, often at the expense of nutrition and health, as well as the lecture in introducing vegetable types, methods of cultivation, seasons, harvesting and soils that are best suited to them, and the amounts of water and fertilizers they need.
