Starkville, Miss. – Two agricultural schools are planning to unite in their common goals despite being a world apart geographically.
A delegation from China’s Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences recently visited Mississippi State University, and representatives from both universities discovered interests in many of the same fields of study. Administrators from the universities signed a five-year agreement “to foster international cooperation in education and research.”
Melissa Mixon, interim vice president for MSU’s Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine, represented MSU.
“We see this as an opportunity to encourage academic and research cooperation with an international institution,” Mixon said. “We share interests in many of the same crops including rice, wheat, cotton and sweet potatoes. Both institutions are involved in similar research including food safety and monitoring technologies, animal and veterinary science, environment and resource management, and advancements in biotechnology.”
Five professors from Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences visited the off-campus sites of the Mississippi Veterinary Research and Diagnostic Laboratory in Pearl, the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station’s truck crop unit in Crystal Springs, MSU’s Central Mississippi Research and Extension Center in Raymond, and MSU’s Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville. On campus, they visited the College of Veterinary Medicine, the Department of Poultry Science, and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. They also met with representatives of other College of Agriculture and Life Science departments.
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Contact:
Melissa Mixon, (662) 325-3006
