A NATIONAL POLICY FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH

India’s National Agricultural Policy: a Critique

Agriculture is described as the backbone of Indian economy, mainly because of three reasons. One, agriculture constitutes largest share of country's national income though the share has declined from 55 percent in early 1950s to about 25 percent by the turn of the Century. Two, more than half of India’s workforce is employed in its agriculture sector. Three, growth of other sectors and overall ...

National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research

NATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL UTILIZATION RESEARCH Microbial Genomics & Bioprocessing Research

Research in my laboratory focuses on developing new microbial processes for adding functionality groups to plant lipids or their component fatty acids to produce value-added food and industrial products. The goal is to develop new products from surplus soybean oil or its component fatty acids through bioprocesses. Oxygenated fatty acids such as hydroxy-, keto-, epoxy-, and cyclic fatty acids ar...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL UTILIZATION RESEARCH Microbial Genomics & Bioprocessing Research

Molecular Systematics and Taxonomy of Yeasts Current research in my laboratory focuses on characterizing the phylogenetic diversity of ascomycetous yeasts and developing molecular tools for rapid strain identification and prediction of agriculturally and biotechnologically significant properties of those species. Yeasts are nearly ubiquitous in nature and are essential for the production of num...

Challenges for U.S. Agricultural Research Policy (Part 4 of 9)

ongress has long evinced interest in the effectiveness of the agricultural research and extension system. It has placed particular stress on high-priority national issues that it has previously identified, and on securing research results and applications (outcomes) that address those issues. Accordingly, Congress took the strong step in FACTA of specifying purposes that “[f]ederally funded agr...