scholarly journals Enhancing the Scope of Vegetable Cultivar Evaluation in Florida

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 560-561
Author(s):  
Donald N. Maynard
Keyword(s):  
Crop Improvement ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
The State ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
New Crops ◽  
Florida Agricultural Experiment Station ◽  
Faculty Input ◽  
Agricultural Experiment

Vegetable cultivar evaluations are conducted seasonally by research and extension faculty at several locations throughout the state of Florida. Results are summarized and published in a Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Circular, Vegetable Variety Evaluation in Florida and used as a basis for extension recommendations published in Vegetable Production Guide for Florida, an industry-sponsored publication. The selection of vegetables to be evaluated depends on local needs and the evaluator's interest. Until recently, this has provided fairly good coverage of the principle vegetables grown in the state. However, the future of this program as currently structured may be in doubt because of changes in assignments of current faculty, new faculty with assignments and interests that differ from their predecessors, and reduced administrative recognition for cultivar evaluation. It is likely that county extension faculty and professional staff will have a greater role in cultivar evaluation as university faculty input is reduced. Increasing the scope of vegetable cultivar evaluation by university faculty to include adaptation of new crops and specialty vegetables adds a new dimension to traditional trials. Some of these vegetables have not benefitted from selection or breeding so there is opportunity for crop improvement as a further extension of vegetable cultivar evaluation.

New Plants for Florida: Grape

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2003 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Jones ◽  
Mary Duryea ◽  
Berry J. Treat
Keyword(s):  
Research Effort ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Agricultural Experiment Station ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Florida Agricultural Experiment Station ◽  
Agricultural Experiment ◽  
Grape Varieties

Until the 1980s, nearly all research effort was focused on development of disease-resistant bunch grape varieties. In the late 1970s, muscadine breeding began to be emphasized. Developments of biotechnological procedures to facilitate genetic improvement of grape began at the Leesburg site in 1984 and continue at Apopka, Florida. The program has been responsible for a number of pivotal technological advances for grape and has been awarded two U.S. patents for work in genetic transformation. This document is part of Circular 1440, a publication of the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, the Agronomy Department and IFAS Communication Services, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Publication date August 2003. Originally published as a booklet by IFAS Communication Services June 2003.

Strategic Guidelines of the State Library Policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-129
Author(s):  
Irina A. Trushina
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
State Library

The Annual Meeting of the Heads of Federal and Central Regional Libraries of Russia was held on November 11—12, 2020 in the online format. The event was organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Russian National Library and the Russian State Library. The main goal of the meeting is to ensure participation of the heads of federal and central regional libraries in the formation and implementation of the state library policy. The topic of the 2020 Meeting is “The Library Profession and Scientific and Educational Work of Libraries”. The scientific content of the meeting was basically determined by the “Strategy for the development of librarianship in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2030”, the draft development of which has been already completed as a whole, but requires the deployment of large-scale research work to form the unified system for monitoring the activities of libraries in the country.The meeting focused on the following issues: organization of scientific research work in libraries; training of professional staff; modernization of librarianship and the role of information technologies in the modern development of libraries and digitalization. The relevance of these topics was proved in the discourse on the development of higher and further professional education in the library sector, improvement of availability of information in the modern conditions. During the sessions, there were summed up the results of the 7th All-Russian competition “Library Analytics” among the central libraries of the subjects of the Russian Federation, the 8th All-Russian competition “The Best Professional Book of the Year” and the 7th All-Russian library review competition for the best electronic publication on culture and art.

Was Kennedy the ‘father’ of the US–Israeli alliance? (1962–63)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Heller
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
State Department ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
The State ◽  
Territorial Integrity ◽  
White House ◽  
Chief Of Staff ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Us

This chapter debunks the myth that President Kennedy was the ‘father’ of the American alliance. Once he became predident he had to bow before the constraints of the state department, the Pentagon and the professional staff at the White House. he accepted the beliefs and assessments of Dean Rusk, the secretary of state and Robert McNamara, the secretary of defence. The US national archives show that American diplomats in the Middle East killed Kennedy’s idea of granting an American security guarantee to Israel. Any security they warned, would be followed by deeper Soviet involvement in the region. American commitment was limited to a presidential declaration of territorial integrity of al the regional states. Thus it was no surprise chief-of-staff Rabin failed to convince the US administration to provide a more cogent commitment to Israel.

scholarly journals New Plants for Florida: Watermelon

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2003 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Jones ◽  
Mary Duryea ◽  
Berry J. Treat
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Agricultural Experiment Station ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Resistant Varieties ◽  
Florida Agricultural Experiment Station ◽  
Agricultural Experiment

FAES leased a tract of land near Leesburg, Florida in 1930 for watermelon research. Emphasis in the early years of the program was resistance to Fusarium wilt, and many crosses and selections were made with the objective ofdeveloping new, wilt-resistant varieties. This document is part of Circular 1440, a publication of the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, the Agronomy Department and IFAS Communication Services, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Publication date August 2003. Originally published as a booklet by IFAS Communication Services June 2003.

scholarly journals New Plants for Florida: Sweet Corn

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2003 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Scully ◽  
Richard L. Jones ◽  
Mary Duryea ◽  
Berry J. Treat
Keyword(s):  
Sweet Corn ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Agricultural Experiment Station ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
Breeding Programs ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Florida Agricultural Experiment Station ◽  
Agricultural Experiment

Today, the sweet corn industry is one of the most robust vegetable industries in Florida, and nationally, sweetcorn is ranked second in consumption after tomato. Florida production uses about two dozen hybrids derived from about six different breeding programs. Over the years, the FAES breeding program has contributed an array of products, including hybrids and inbreds, along with germplasm that serves as the raw material for the development of future hybrids. This document is part of Circular 1440, a publication of the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, the Agronomy Department and IFAS Communication Services, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Publication date August 2003. Originally published as a booklet by IFAS Communication Services June 2003. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ag214

scholarly journals A Study of Marketing and Production Constraints Faced by Vegetable Growers

2020 ◽  
pp. 257-263
Author(s):  
Priyanka Shah ◽  
Mohammad Aslam Ansari
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Production Constraints ◽  
Four Blocks ◽  
Vegetable Cultivation

Vegetable cultivation offers a unique opportunity for hill farmers of Uttarakhand due to the favourable climatic conditions. Consequently, vegetable cultivation in Uttarakhand hills, even in off-season, has picked up on quite a large scale. Although it has become quite remunerative but farmers are reportedly facing lots of marketing and production constraints. The present study was conducted in Kumaon region of Uttarakhand to study the production and marketing constraints faced by the vegetable growers. Study sample comprised of 200 farmers selected purposively from eight villages spread across four blocks and two districts in Kumaon division of Uttarakhand. The data was collected using a pre-tested structured interview schedule. The study findings revealed that major marketing constraints reported by vegetable growers were: long chain of intermediaries, inadequate transportation facilities, high transportation charges, inadequate storage facilities, low price / lack of remunerative price and non-availability of market information. Further, some production related constraints reported by the respondents were high cost of seeds/ fertilizers, lack of information about planting material/ production inputs, lack of knowledge about grading and standardization of vegetable, non-availability of farm labour and lack of packaging material. These findings will be helpful to the State government for developing a policy framework and relevant guidelines for promoting vegetable production in the state.

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