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  • The DEFRA love-in turns sour

    After the glamour of the Soil Association conference in Manchester last week, this week I’m at the NEC in Birmingham for the National Farmers Union’s annual meeting. With no general election on the immediate horizon, union president Peter Kendall in the hot seat for another year and a DEFRA...
    Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Feb 15 2011

  • Using larvae to help India’s farmers

    Have you missed me? I’ve been out at the sticks checking out farms and they don’t tend to have much tinterweb access there. Or electricity, for that matter… I know I’m pretty lucky to be seeing parts of India that your general tourist wouldn’t have a chance to see, but I...
    Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Sat, Oct 23 2010

  • Farming science, a flight and a freak-out

    So had I a bit of a wobble yesterday. The stress of nearly being kidnapped, coupled with a hair-raising five-hour drive from Hisar back to Delhi so I could catch a flight to Mumbai (or Bombay, if you insist on being colonial) got to me. It’s a tad exhausting being on edge for hour after [...]
    Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Oct 20 2010

  • Backing farming’s boffins

    I wrote a few articles last year about agricultural research in the UK. I was looking at funding sources, the decline in spend on R&D and the kinds of things research institutes in Britain are looking at. As I’m sure you’ve already guessed, I’m a bit of a geek, so I got very interested...
    Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Sat, Jun 12 2010
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