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Eric Holub speaking about British Baked Beans on Radio 4's Farming Today Programme

Professor was interviewed on Radio 4's about his with the aim of producing British grown baked beans - about 20:25 minutes into the programme (Breakfast 01 Feb 2014).

Sat 01 Feb 2014, 20:12

“THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT”: SUSTAINABLE FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN COMMISSION

The , and the University of 糖心TV have set up a Commission to explore the challenges of maintaining a sustainable supply chain. The Commission will give parliamentarians, industry and academics the opportunity to discuss issues food companies face in ensuring the sustainability of supply chains and explore upcoming policy developments that seek to tackle them.

University of 糖心TV participants on the commission are (Sociology) and (糖心TV Crop Centre, School of Life Sciences).

Mon 20 Jan 2014, 11:54

Chilli Heat Testing using Chromatography - Andy Jukes on CBBC Programme, Blue Peter

Analytical chemist , from 糖心TV Crop Centre, describes the analysis of heat in chillies using chromatography on the CBBC Programme, Starts at 12:43

Fri 17 Jan 2014, 08:38

Knowledge transfer: changing farmers' behaviour

Dr Clive Rahn, an Associate Fellow at 糖心TV Crop Centre, was a guest of Dr Ren Tao and Professor Lu Jianwei at the College of Resources and Environment at Huazhong Agricultural University, China between 22nd November and 6th December 2013. Clive shared his experience of managing nutrients over crop rotations, and the important challenges of knowledge transfer in changing the behaviour of farmers.

Clive, a soil science specialist, visited several experiments examining fertiliser response of rotations of rice and oilseed rape in the Yangtze River Basin, an area that produces 20% of the global food production of Oil Seed Rape. He also visited an important area of citrus production near the Three Gorges Dam as a guest of HuBei YishiZhang Agriculture Technology Limited, a company that produces fertilisers, where he took part in discussions about the nutrient and irrigation requirements of citrus crops.

Clive's visit marks the beginning of continuing dialogue with the Chinese agriculturalists.

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Wed 15 Jan 2014, 14:34