Sentences with phrase «agriculture research and innovation»

A number of key issues in urban agriculture research and innovation are briefly discussed.

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These include: C$ 4.5 billion to support research, training, and infrastructure at universities and colleges; a Strategic Innovation Fund that will provide C$ 1.26 billion for business innovation in the aerospace and automotive sector; a Connect to Innovate Program that will invest C$ 500 million to bring high - speed Internet to remote and rural communities by 2021; and, C$ 70 million over six years to support agriculture innovation with a focus on climate change, and soil and water conservation.

Typically, innovations are disseminated by diffusion agencies, like the U.S. Department of Agriculture extension services, which research and develop innovations and then dispense the technologies «down» to the public.

Continued research and innovation is needed to improve production techniques and yields, the ecological sustainability of organic agriculture, and the social responsibility and fairness in its value chains.

He also criticised the government for not being more active in encouraging research, development and innovation in the agriculture industry, which has lead to an industry that trails American agriculture in productivity.

The continuous growth in agriculture and rice had been mainly possible because of scientific research and innovation, development of new rice varieties (high - yielding, short duration, stress - tolerant rice) and better farm management (with seeds from high - yielding varieties, irrigation, fertilizer, and pest management), which is supported by the country's Ministry of Agriculture, the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, IRRI - Bangladesh Office, agriculture and rice had been mainly possible because of scientific research and innovation, development of new rice varieties (high - yielding, short duration, stress - tolerant rice) and better farm management (with seeds from high - yielding varieties, irrigation, fertilizer, and pest management), which is supported by the country's Ministry of Agriculture, the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, IRRI - Bangladesh Office, andresearch and innovation, development of new rice varieties (high - yielding, short duration, stress - tolerant rice) and better farm management (with seeds from high - yielding varieties, irrigation, fertilizer, and pest management), which is supported by the country's Ministry of Agriculture, the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, IRRI - Bangladesh Office, Agriculture, the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, IRRI - Bangladesh Office, andResearch Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, IRRI - Bangladesh Office, andResearch Council, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, IRRI - Bangladesh Office, andResearch Institute, IRRI - Bangladesh Office, and others.

On agriculture, the President welcomed the interest by some Nigerian doctoral students studying in the Netherlands on developing the sector through research and innovation, particularly the livestock sector.

«I hate to compare, but given the innovations he has carried out at IITA and how he has taken it a notch higher the development ladder, I must say that Dr. Sanginga understands the critical role of agriculture research institutes in our continent's grim battle against the scourge of hunger and poverty, more than any of his predecessors.

He attributed challenges facing farmers to lack of critical linkage between agricultural research and implementation, adding signing of MoU and partnership with IITA, the state is stand to have direct - to - farm linkage of scientific innovations in farming by the very best of agriculture scientists.

The demand for scientists with expertise in the agriculture / food sector is likely to increase in the next decade, says Celia Caulcott, director of innovation and skills at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

The improved grasses have revolutionized tropical forage across the continent thanks to the combined work of researchers at CIAT and the Brazilian Enterprise for Agriculture Research, a state - owned Brazilian company, says Eduardo Trigo, an agricultural economist and science adviser to the Argentine ministry of science, technology and innovation in Buenos Aires.

Research and innovation programs now get the third largest chunk of the European Union's budget, after agriculture and structural funds for regional development.

«A greater number of Europhobic members... in the European Parliament would certainly have negative consequences on the idea to turn scientific research and innovation into a great European policy, as we have done for agriculture,» says Jean - Pierre Audy, an EPP parliamentarian from France who lost his seat in this election.

There is an enormous amount that agriculture and research and innovation can do together.

Agriculture and Agri - Food Canada (AAFC) provides information, research and technology, and policies and programs to achieve security of the food system, health of the environment and innovation for growth.