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International Research
Faculty members in our department collaborate extensively with colleagues
in other countries, often through USAID or internationally-funded collaborative
research projects. Major project activities are currently underway in
Ecuador, Egypt and Morocco as described below. More informal colleague
to colleague or broad-based inter-institutional agreements also exist
with Argentina, Australia, China and Uruguay.
Ecuador
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- Overcoming micronutrient deficiency in the bean soils of Ecuador
- More than 50% of the soils where beans are grown in Ecuador
are deficient in Zn: 77% in Mn
- Foliar and soil applicat-ions of zinc chelates can raise yields
from 450 to 1250 kg ha-1
- Tolerance to low Zn levels has been shown in the lines LSA102,
SUG55, and AND684
- Technology validation studies in Ecuador
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- Our Ecuador program aims to develop new varieties and technologies
for use by bean growers in that country
- Zn fertilization using chelates now adopted in 80+% of farms
in a PESAE-FAO study in northern Ecuador
- Inoculation using rhizobial strains identified in our program,
and now produced in Ecuador have been adopted by 50+% of farmers
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Morocco
The University of Minnesota (UM) and the Institute for Agronomy and
Veterinary Science (IAV) in Rabat, Morocco have had a 30-year history
of collaboration. During this collaboration, over 100 Ph.D. students
were trained in various agricultural fields. They returned to Morocco
to teach and conduct research at the IAV, and over the last two decades
have trained several hundred agricultural students from all portions
of North Africa. The UM and IAV are now embarking on a strategic plan
to sustain and enhance this partnership for the next decade. Joint planning
activities are being conducted in Morocco and Minnesota. Faculty partnerships
are being rejuvenated, and proposals are being written to facilitate
joint research, teaching, and outreach at the two institutions of higher
education. Areas of emphasis in the new partnership include institution
building, natural resource and water management, food science and human
nutrition, animal production and veterinary sciences, and agronomy and
horticulture. Exchanges of faculty and students are possible with this
new interaction.
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