Mali Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries keen on stronger research partnerships to benefit farmers nationwide From
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This is something we needed to know about, support, promote and make better known at the national level in order to benefit to the maximum,” said Minister Mohamed Ould Mahmoud while on a visit to the ICRISAT research station in Samanko with a group of high-level members of the Malian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. The Minister commended the organization’s contribution to sorghum, millet and legumes research for food and fodder security and the role of the genebank in protecting the crops’ genetic resources in the region.
WAVEx Webinar Pt 1 With today’s Fruit Grower Report, I’m Bob Larson. The next Washington Advancements in Viticulture and Enology seminar is coming up very soon and this year will be held virtually as the WAVEx Webinar.
The Washington State Wine Commission’s Research Program Director, Melissa Hansen says the WAVEx meetings are the condensed versions of the WAVE series …
HANSEN … “It will be a free, one hour, or close to one hour, webinar. And, it’s sponsored buy the Washington State Wine Commission and Washington State University, as our WAVE and WAVE-x events are.”
This WAVEx, Hansen says targets a new vineyard pest …
This open access book shares the experiences of Tropical Legumes III (TLIII) project in facilitating access to seed of improved legume varieties to smallholder farmers through innovation platforms. It highlights practices and guiding principles implemented in eight developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. This book details key processes that respective teams employed to create an innovation space that delivers seed, other inputs, knowledge and financial services to agricultural communities and most importantly, the underserved farmers in remote areas of the drylands.
It offers valuable insights into the pathway to establishing, promoting and operating innovation platforms to enhance the performance and competitiveness of legume cropsâ value chains, and addresses critical issues that must be considered to make innovation platforms more sustainable and attractive to beneficiaries. The book offers a wealth of practical insights for development workers, technical
Webinar to Explore Grape Mechanization
Registration open for Jan. 20 WAVEx mechanization webinar January 07, 2021
SEATTLE – Wine grape growers are invited to register for an upcoming webinar dedicated to vineyard mechanization. The free WAVEx mechanization webinar is scheduled for January 20, 2021 from 12:30-1:30 p.m.
The webinar will feature results of a study led by Dr. Clark Seavert, Oregon State University agricultural economist, who recently benchmarked the economics of vineyard mechanization for the Oregon and Washington wine industries. The study, funded by Oregon’s Erath Foundation and the Washington State Wine Commission, used Oregon and Washington wine grape production costs to compare costs of vineyard tasks performed by hand labor and existing mechanical implements.