Agriculture committee  May I add to that?

Agriculture committee  I think the research capacity exists, and without wishing to sound flippant, it is the case that money speaks. Our research scientists are continually applying for research grants. If there is one that is particularly attractive, they will go for that one rather than another. The

Agriculture committee  It wasn't me.

Agriculture committee  Probably the most well-known one is the relationship between one of our biosystems engineers and entomologists from Agriculture Canada around grain storage. Grain storage is a big issue in a lot of the world. China loses more grain in storage each year than Canada produces. Wha

Agriculture committee  Let me add that before I moved to Canada I worked for an organization called the London Development Agency. My role there was to work out how to extract technology from London's 42 universities, institutes of higher education, or whatever. The thing that became very apparent was

Agriculture committee  That's very interesting. One of the problems is that it's extremely complex. It is not as simple as saying you have to have a genetically modified plant or you have to go to organic agriculture. If you want a plant to be more productive, whether you bred it conventionally or used

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. I think we come at this from a university perspective, which covers a wide range of activities, and we have a number of things we wish to talk about that are broader rather than specific. One of the first things that actually concerns