Baton Rouge, LA – Five members of the Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center faculty and staff will travel to China to exchange knowledge and technology in the area of World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimate with Chinese scientists and officials.
The visit, which will be from October
17-30, is part of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)/Foreign
Agricultural Service’s Scientific Exchange Program (SCEP) with the People’s
Republic of China.
The objective of SCEP is to promote
bilateral scientific exchange to promote agricultural cooperation, development,
and trade between the United States and China. The Southern University Ag
Center hosted six scientists from China in June of 2012. This travel will allow
China to host a delegation from the SU Ag Center.
This isn’t the SU Ag Center’s first
experience with international exchange. The SU Ag Center was accepted into the
Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellows
Program in 2011. The program provided U.S.-based agribusiness and collaborative
research training to African women from Kenya and Malawi.
“Because of the great reputation of
the Southern University Ag Center with international exchange, the USDA
approached us about applying for the SCEP,” said Fatemeh Malekian, Professor of
Food Science and Nutrition at the SU Ag Center and Project Director of the program.
“We are going to get to see a very
diverse view of China’s agriculture,” said Malekian. The group will travel to
Beijing; Harbin, Heilongjiang Province and Nanning, Guangxi Province during
their two-week visit. “Our goal is to learn from the way they are looking at agriculture
and apply it here at SU,” she added.
The delegates going to China are: Professor
of Food Science and Nutrition, Fatemeh Malekian; Coordinator for Planning and
Evaluation, Oscar Udoh, Ph.D.; Professor of Animal Science, Sebhatu Gebrelul, Ph.D.;
Associate Dean of the College of Agriculture and Professor of Design and
Merchandising, Doze Butler, Ph.D. and Communications Specialist, Bridget Udoh,
Ph.D.
The group will meet with the Chinese
scientists who visited Southern, the staff of the National Agro-Tech Extension
and Service Center, the College of Economics and Management at the China
Agricultural University, the Division of Market Information at the Agricultural
Committee of Heilongjiang and Guangxi Provincial Department of Agriculture;
visit extension agencies; manufacturers of ag-products, grains and poultry
farms.
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Contact:
Bridget
Udoh
(225)
771-5714
bridget_udoh@suagcenter.com
LaKeeshia
D. Giddens – writer
(225)
771-2160
lakeeshia_giddens@suagcenter.com
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