South Africa has a high number of unemployed graduates in the agricultural sector across all disciplines. However, there has been a pervasive culture in the South African education system that when agricultural
Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) Established in 2004, RUFORUM is a consortium of 29 universities in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. Its mandate is to oversee graduate training and networks of specialisation in COMESA countries and operates through ...
which organized the roundtable with several Chinese agencies, the delegation visited universities, farms and agricultural-experiment stations in China. They enjoyed talking with their counterparts and also sightseeing.
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Fellow of the Nigeria Environmental Society and has served as Chairman/member of several Panel Review Teams on environmental impact assessment (EIA) of projects for the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nigeria and Chairman/member of several accreditation panels for the National Universities Commission (...
DES MOINES, Iowa — Issues facing the world are not divided into academic departments, and universities should reflect that reality in their search for solutions, Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, said at the Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium....
Other organizations involved in the preservation of traditional rice varieties include "agricultural universities, KVKs, agricultural training centers (ATCs)", and other farmer associations. Farmers are becoming more interested in growing different types of folk rice instead of HYVs since they are ...
This is not a criticism of Prosuco, but there needs to be more formal research, for example, from universities, on safe, inexpensive, natural fungicides and fertilizers that farmers can make at home, and on the combinations of these inputs. Agrochemical companies have all the advantages. They...
In 2007, India launched a project to provide agro-meteorological information to farmers with the help of multi-institutional framework, which includes agricultural universities, research units, NGOs, and media institutions. This provides four types of services to farmers: (1) a meteorological informati...
Africa ▪ Turkey ▪ Egypt ▪ Iran ▪ Nigeria ▪ South Africa 228 Latin America, South America ▪ Brazil ▪ Mexico Eastern Europe ▪ Russia ▪ Poland ▪ Argentina ▪ Venezuela 348 ▪ Romania ▪ Ukraine 336 SOURCE: Global ...