By Dee Shore
A not-so-secret sauce of university and industry collaboration that has helped make North Carolina one of the world’s leading agricultural technology hubs is seasoning a new NC State University Agricultural Formulations course to strengthen agriculture’s talent pipeline.
Launching this fall, the course represents a first step toward a proposed multicourse certificate program to provide undergraduate, graduate and nondegree students with the knowledge they need to help develop the next generation of pesticides, fertilizers, growth regulators and biological products.
Ideas for an interdisciplinary agricultural formulations curriculum have grown out of ongoing discussions among representatives of the ag tech industry, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative.
Source : ncsu.edu