Yoshimasa Ushiki, manager in the research department, and Shuhei Munemasa, senior staff member, both at the Regional and Industrial Commodities Grant Department of the Agriculture and Livestock Industries Corp. in Japan will visit NDSU July 28-29.
The corporation’s major role is to enhance and stabilize livestock, vegetable, sugar and starch industries in Japan through government-funded programs. Keiko Nakagawa, research director of Nakagawa Marketing in California, will serve as their interpreter.
Extension sugarbeet specialist Mohamed Khan, the NDSU plant pathology department and University of Minnesota will serve as host. They will exchange information on sugarbeet research, the Extension structure used to disseminate information, Roundup Ready sugarbeet and challenges facing the sugarbeet industry. The visitors will tour research facilities at NDSU and United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Fargo, and sugarbeet research demonstration sites in North Dakota and Minnesota.