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The SAES’s international connections have brought two visiting scholars to campus for fall semester.

Dr. Berna Turkekul is an exchange scholar who will be with the SAES for four months. Turkekul is a research assistant with the Agricultural Economics Department at Ege University in Turkey. Her research interests are agricultural policy, agricultural policy analysis, the macroeconomics of agriculture and international agricultural trade. She is currently working on joint research into the implications of globalization on the olive oil sector in southern Mediterranean countries, and European cooperation in scientific and technical research on determining consumer perceptions of organically produced fresh fruit and vegetables. While with the SAES, she will be working with Dr. Osei Yeboah on international trade issues.

Also this semester, Drs. Manuel Reyes and Charles Raczkowski are hosting Juang Gema Kartika, who is about to complete her masters of science in agronomy at Indonesia’s Bogor Agricultural University. Kartika has been conducting research in the use of phosphorous fertilizers that have the potential for optimizing vegetable harvests in acidic soil and identifying vegetable varieties that will tolerate unfavorable growing conditions in Indonesia. During her stay at the SAES, she will be engaged in field research that evaluates management strategies that improve soil quality and crop productivity. The practices under study at the University Farm and at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (near Goldsboro) may benefit Indonesia, where a shortage of fertile land has pushed agriculture into marginal soils and difficult growing conditions.

Posted October 3, 2007 04:34 PM

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