Vision
To be a local and regional leader in plant health, while serving the changing needs of the agricultural society.
Mission
The mission is to facilitate the acquisition of technical skills by students and professionals in all sectors of agriculture and plant protection, enabling them to provide the most effective support and services to farmers, other agricultural stakeholders, and the research community. This supports the practice of sustainable agriculture and ensures better income for their produce.
Values
- Our collective success depends on creating and maintaining a supportive and collegial environment.
- Our effectiveness as a plant clinic team depends on accepting and utilizing diversity in work style, expertise, skills, personality, and outlook.
- Our ability to solve multifaceted plant problems requires contributions from, and mutual respect among, our research, teaching, and extension teams.
- Our ability to establish and preserve excellence in the plant protection field depends on innovation, creativity, risk-taking, and growth.
Goals
- Research Goal: To understand microbes, plants, and their interactions in the environment in order to provide effective approaches by which plant diseases, pests, and disorders can be controlled, and beneficial interactions can be maximized.
- Instructional Goals: To offer superior education in plant pathology and plant-microbe interactions and to broaden the perspectives of plant biology in undergraduate and graduate studies.
- Extension and Outreach Goals: To integrate and extend knowledge and provide services that foster an understanding of plant diseases and enhance plant health, food safety, profitable and sustainable agriculture, and environmental stewardship.
Learn about the Plant Clinic Laboratory at Suez Canal University
The Plant Clinic is affiliated with the Agricultural Services Center at the Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, and it is a unit that was established with the support of the Erasmus program in the European Union. The clinic focuses primarily on training the students of the Plant Clinic Diploma Program and providing extension services to the public of the agricultural sector in Ismailia and neighboring governorates. It is managed by a team specialized in the field of plant diseases, prevention, and nutrition.