Background: Agri-Clinics and Agri-Business Centres (AC ABCs) is a scheme implemented by the Government of India in collaboration with National Bank for Agriculture Rural Development (NABARD) to provide assistance development entrepreneurship agriculture, creating employment opportunities unemployed agricultural graduates also providing extension services farmers rural areas. The present study m...

Abstract One might reasonably invoke Dickens in describing AFSs and AVCs today: “it was the best of times, it worst times.”

Victoria Sid, Nan Wu, Lindsei K. Sarna, Yaw L. Siow, James D. House, and Karmin O St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Department of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; and Department of Human Nutrit...

TheabilityofPseudomonas sp.LBUM223 to producephenazine-1carboxylic acida¡ects thegrowth ofStreptomyces scabies, the expressionofthaxtomin biosynthesis genes and thebiological control potential against commonscabof potato Renée St-Onge, Vijay J. Gadkar, Tanya Arseneault, Claudia Goyer & Martin Filion Département de biologie, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB, Canada; and Potato Research Center,...

1Department of Agriculture and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2P5; 2Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lacombe Research Centre, 6000 C&E Trail, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada T4L 1W1; 3Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Western Forage Beef Group, Lacombe Research Centre, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada. T4L 1W1. Received 27 January 2003, accepted 28 Au...

The International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium is an informal association of University and Government economists interested in agricultural trade. Its purpose is to foster interaction, improve research capacity and to focus on relevant trade policy issues. It is financed by United States Department of Agriculture (ERS, and FAS), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the participating ...

1 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Summerland Research and Development Centre, Summerland, BC, Canada, 2 Department of Biology, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB, Canada, 3 INRA, UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres/Microorganismes INRA/Université de Lorraine, Centre INRA Nancy Lorraine, Champenoux, France, 4 Faculté des Sciences et Technologies, Université de Lorraine, UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres/M...

At 14-day intervals, 12 calves were vaccinated twice with a S. typhimurium bacterin-toxoid, and 12 control calves each received two injections of dialuminum trioxide/saline placebo. Two weeks following the vaccination booster, or the second placebo injection, ten calves – five vaccinated and five treated with placebo – were challenged with 100 ng/kg of E. coli 055:B5 endotoxin. Similarly, anoth...

The establishment and management of information infrastructures in chains and beyond is a prerequisite for the implementation of the emerging comprehensive requirements on tracking, tracing and quality assurance in agriculture and the food sector. They support the guarantee of food safety and the focus on consumers’ quality needs. The challenge for the sector is the agreement on, and the implem...