Relentless advance"Today's technology lets us upload photos in real time, images of symptoms to help and also, through the project, we can mobilise the scientific resources of European countries which can go to other Mediterranean countries to help and to train these people," CIHEAM
agronomist Maroun al-Moujabber from Lebanon said.
Lack of qualified
agronomists is one of main problems in switchover to organic farming.
I later asked the head
agronomist how many individual peasant farmers he believed would invest in this type of plow following this training.
Samir Ismael and Chairperson of the Syndicate of Syrian
Agronomist Engineers, Rama Aziz expressed support to the political program for solving the crisis, hailing the government's efforts to strengthen national economy.
It was a different story on crops, however, as most participants, under the guidance of their
agronomist, used tissue testing of their crops when they believed crop performance was not what it should be.
(For the uninitiated an
agronomist is an expert in soil management...)
"Proximity to the warm waters of the lake offers important protection from freezes," says Barry Glaz, an ARS
agronomist. "But not all sugarcane fields are close enough to the lake to benefit.
One of Mendes's earliest allies from the other Brazil--the developed, industrialized south--was the late lose Lutzenberger, an
agronomist who became the country's leading ecologist and then briefly its environment minister shortly after Mendes's death.
At the Universidad de Chile in August of 2004, more than 40 students applied for 20 openings in the country's first class on producing olive oil, says Maria Hurtado, an
agronomist at the university.
378) an
agronomist claims that farmers "typically apply more fertilizer than their crops need" as an explanation for increased pollution in coastal waters.
debut of his newest film this spring, however, Jonathan Demme had been tooling The
Agronomist, on and off, for over a decade.
"GPS allows growers to farm on a 'site-specific' basis, where fertility is monitored on a much smaller scale," says Andy Ackley, corporate
agronomist at Royster-Clark.
