Developments in farming technology

Question 1

CARFOCIAL is located i

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Columbia

Question 2

CARFOCIAL working with

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A farming community in Columbia is working with high-tech innovations to encourage more Latin American farmers to adopt high tech farming practices.

Question 3

CARFOCIAL introduction of local agricultural research community

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In 1990, in the village of San Bosco has led to a mini boom in the cultivation of maize there.

Question 4

CARFOCIAL success of this project relies on

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The NGO-funded project’s success relies on the fact that laboratory made technological advances in maize selection and production have been shared with 114 farming families there, who are axcting as community based researchers.

Question 5

CARFOCIAL different about the project

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It has encouraged poor farmers to adopt new technology and incorporate it in the way they farm their land.

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Agro-Technology Park located in

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Sri Lanka.

Question 7

The complex is designed to

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The state of the art technology complex is designed to ensure that the latest recommendations in crop cultivation and technology are adopted by Sri Lankan farmers.

Question 8

Agro technology park is leading research into

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Rice devlopment in Sri Lanka, including new improved and hybrid varieties, and also organizing their release for general cultivation.

Question 9

How the park is funded

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The center is being initially funded by Government money, but private companies are being encouraged to rent buildings for their own use.