Sentences with phrase «agricultural research»

Lawmakers appear to be developing a soft spot for competitive grants for agricultural research.

In fact, rice research is the single largest documented source of agricultural research benefits in the developing world.

Historically, agricultural productivity has been driven by investments in agricultural research and development.

We work with our public and private sector partners in national agricultural research and extension systems in major rice - growing countries to do research, training, and knowledge transfer.

The promotion made him the first Hispanic in the nation to lead a land - grant agricultural research station.

The bank, which is dominated by rich nations, wants to take command of a network of agricultural research centres and their priceless collections of genetic varieties of crops.

A number of alumni now hold key positions in the country's agricultural research agencies.

But as others have pointed out, there seems to be a gap between the resources going into agricultural research now and the size of the potential challenge.

The amendment allows colleges and universities to grow hemp for academic and agricultural research purposes.

We also consider federal health, science and agricultural research grants to the states.

The technology could be applied to a number of uses, including agricultural research, environmental monitoring, medical diagnosis and treatment, or anything involving a biological system.

The public agricultural research sector remains largely excluded from using modern molecular technology.

Indeed, agricultural research offers some research opportunities missing in the pharmaceutical arena.

Supporters of agricultural research credit him for helping to secure a 30 % boost in competitive grants and a 64 % boost in the agency's budget request.

They also need to be trained in specific scientific methods aimed at laboratory equipment management and agricultural research methodologies.

The tough times are no surprise to advocates for agricultural research.

We are continuing our successful conference scholarships to encourage young people in their study, careers and volunteering in international agricultural research.

It is one of the main functions of agricultural research, and farmers are often the innovators.

Fulbright scholar Muthiah Muruganandam, left, a senior scientist at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, and fisheries biologist Steven Chipps, leader of the U.S. Geological Survey, South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, will examine how land - use changes affect water quality and fisheries resources in northeastern South Dakota lakes.

This also makes IRRI the first international agricultural research center to be officially recognized as an international organization by the Government of Vietnam.

Dr Joice Ferreira, a co-author from the Brazilian Agricultural Research Center, said: «These findings are timely as Brazil recently revised its environmental laws regulating forests, allowing a trading system for private reserves and designing plans for environmental restoration.

Recognizing the impact the industrial hemp industry can have on manufacturing, the creation of new jobs and the profitability of farms across New York, the State, at the Governor's direction, launched its Industrial Hemp Agricultural Research Pilot Program in 2015.

Often far better than even prized sequences such as the original mouse and human genomes, such polished genomes are «now going to become super mainstream,» says Timothy P.L. Smith, an animal geneticist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service in Clay Center, Nebraska.

IPSA was established as Bangladesh College of Agricultural Science (BCAS) in 1983 as an academic organ of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) and academically affiliated with Bangladesh Agricultural University until 1991.

In April, he convened the State's first - ever Industrial Hemp Summit and announced that the State's Industrial Hemp Agricultural Research Pilot Program had filled its ten available research permits.

In recognition for spearheading this bounce back, the Governing Board of this Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research institute appointed current director general, William D. Dar, a Filipino horticulturist, for an unprecedented third consecutive 5 - year term.

Miguel Dita, a plant pathologist with the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation in Jaguariúna, says it's important to look for other replacements, including varieties other than Cavendish.

He also mentioned helping to fund agricultural research at Cornell University's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) in Geneva.

GOBii works with breeding centers associated with CGIAR, a consortium that supports agricultural research for global development.

On 16 September, 209 - kilometer - per - hour winds tore through the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center late in the afternoon, damaging or destroying a dozen greenhouses, three buildings, and 800 trees in a research arboretum.

COLLEGE STATION — The battle against fever ticks rages on, and a group of Texas A&M University and French National Institute for Agricultural Research scientists are doing their best to determine where the fray will head by synthesizing historical models for use in curbing the pest globally.

And just as money was diverted from agricultural research for environmental projects in the 1980s, there's a danger that immediate problems in poor countries will be shortchanged by pursuing the long - term agenda of wealthy Westerners, as Bjorn Lomborg has been arguing.

I have taught at the University of Maryland - College Park and worked at the USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.

(Another consortium, led by the French agricultural research organization CIRAD, announced its sequencing of a different variety of cacao shortly after we released our sequence.)

Work to develop Golden Rice currently includes laboratory, greenhouse, and field studies at IRRI, national agricultural research institutions, and other institutions around the world to

These trophy wins coupled with five gold medals across House of Arras, Eddystone Point and Bay of Fires has earned Accolade Wines the Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research Trophy for the Most Successful Exhibitor, the second time in three years.

Return to the Wild Most farmers in Senegal avoid their fields at noon, when the sun is high and the dry season temperatures soar north of 100 degrees Fahrenheit, says Daniel Foncéka, a scientist with the French Agricultural Research Center for International Development.

IFPRI's fellows in the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research system are developing, for example, drought - tolerant or heat - resistant varieties of staple crops such as wheat and rice.

The Rainforest Alliance announces that CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center)-- a commercial farm located 50 miles northeast of San Jose, Costa Rica — has achieved Rainforest Alliance certification for its dairy operations, making it the nation's first cattle farm to earn the Rainforest Alliance CertifiedTM seal.

As the storm got more attention, Shmuel Assouline of Israel's Agricultural Research Organization and Bou - Zeid emailed several colleagues and suggested they look into the cause of the storm.

Those new initiatives range from fighting a fresh war on cancer and developing cleaner energy and transportation systems to doubling spending on competitive agricultural research and improving the computer literacy of U.S. school children.

UPDATE: My colleague Andy Revkin notes parallels in financing for energy as well as agricultural research: short - sightedness seems to reign.