Texas A&M AgriLife Research gets $5 2 million grant for onion improvement gilmermirror.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gilmermirror.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
An Omaha Maya organization has received one of five $15,000 grants from the nonprofit Green Latinos. Some 85 five organizations applied for the grant from the Justicia y Equidad Fund for "under-resourced Latino environmental justice organizations." Communidad Maya Pixim Ixim (CMPI) is an Omaha-based nonprofit supporting Maya and other Indigenous communities in Nebraska. Lola Marina Juan Tomas, CMPI interim executive director, said there are approximately 10,000 Maya in Nebraska, about half of them in the Omaha area. .
Two PVAMU faculty, staff members receive distinguished awards by The Texas A&M University System pvamu.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pvamu.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A new report is calling for greater accountability in the system providing funding to farmers in underserved communities. The research takes a dive into the Farm Credit System, examining the risks and suggesting improvements to make the system more fair and more sustainable. Joshua Humphreys, president and senior fellow of Croatan Institute, a farmer and lead author of the report, said despite the Farm Credit System making around 45% of all agricultural loans, there is no transparency in how much of the funding goes to small, midsized or socially disadvantaged farmers. .
COMMERCE, TX Texas A&M University-Commerce Professor of Horticulture Dr. Derald Harp was recently honored as a Texas A&M University System Regents Professor.
The A&M System Board of Regents announced their selections for Regents Professors and Regents Fellows at their regular meeting