Water Productivity of Sunflower Under Different Irrigation Regimes at Gezira Clay Soil, Sudan

Eman R.A. Elsheikh graduated from Gezira University, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in 2000. She works in the Agricultural Research Corporation, Land and water Research Centre, WadMedani since 2003. She started her master programme in 2005 in the Water Management and Irrigation Institute, University of Gezira, and completed her master study in 2007.She participated in the international short course on Integrated Watershed Management, Bangkok, Thailand in 2008. In January 2010 she worked at the Forestry Research Centre in Khartoum. In 2009 she attended the Watershed and River Basin Management short course at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. During this course she met Professor Bart Schultz for her PhD proposal, and got a full scholarship in January 2011 from the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP) for her PhD study at UNESCO-IHE, Department of Water Science and Engineering. Her PhD research is on Water Productivity for Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L)under Gezira clay conditions, Sudan. In 2014 she gained another grant for research from the International Foundation for Sciences (IFS). She attended two annual PhD seminars during her PhD study.