Conducting transformational education at Land Grant Universities in the US

Location: LR11 Plant sciences
Date(s): Thursday 19th September 2019 (13:00-14:00)
Contact: Debbie Sparkes
Description: Mohamed Khan received his BS from the University of Guyana, MS from University of Bath, and Ph.D from Clemson University. He has taught at primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in Guyana and the USA. He has experiences in managing the coconut and oil palm industry in Guyana, and over the past two decades was responsible for conducting transformational education for sugar beet growers in North Dakota and Minnesota, USA. The adoption of research based recommendations have contributed to a 50% increase in sugar beet yield and a 23% reduction in acreage to the sugar beet industry responsible for over $5 billion of total economic activities. Mohamed will share the story of sugar beet growers adopting herbicide tolerant sugar beet to overcome weed issues and using multi-site fungicides to complement site specific fungicide to manage Cercospora leaf spot which is the most damaging foliar disease of sugar beet.

School of Biosciences

University of Nottingham
Sutton Bonington Campus
Nr Loughborough
LE12 5RD, UK

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