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Increased investment in crop science essential to deliver Food 2030 strategy

The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) has welcomed the Government’s Food 2030 strategy, launched by Environment Secretary Hilary Benn at this year’s Oxford Farming Conference, as a clear signal that the Government recognises the strategic importance of food security, and the role of a competitive and productive UK farming industry in meeting future food needs.

Presentations for the Final Workshop of the BREAM project are available

The presentations for the Final Workshop of the BREAM (Bystander and Resident Exposure Assessment Model) project held at Robinson College in Cambridge on Thursday 7th January are now available.

Please click on the following links to view the presentations.

Please Click here: How will model be used

Please click here: BREAM - Exposure to pesticide vapours

Freezing conditions help control developing problems

The big freeze is just what was needed to see off the yellow rust reported as developing at several sites pre-Christmas. If not completely killed it will hopefully have been suppressed sufficiently to not bother us again for a while. Excessive winter canopies in oilseed rape crops may also have been thinned out, making TAG’s advice to its Members about autumn PGRs particularly valuable.

Natural anti-malaria drug yield improved nearly three-fold by UK crop scientists

NIAB non-food crops project manager Steven Bentley in Artemisia trialsUK crop researchers have significantly increased the yields of a leading anti-malaria remedy that could eventually benefit malaria sufferers worldwide.

The plant extract artemisinin comes from the wormwood plant Artemisia annua. It offers the only effective alternative to the resistance problems faced by current synthetic anti-malaria drugs world-wide.

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