- Virgin Islands Cooperative Extension Service
UVIs two beautiful campuses are located on St. Thomas and St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The U.S. territory is located about 1,100 miles south east of Miami in the Eastern Caribbean Sea. ...
http://rps.uvi.edu/CES/
| | - The Virginia Fruit Page
Fruit Production in the midAtlantic region has a long history, dating to Colonial times in Virginia with pomological and viticultural efforts by founders such as Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Today, Virginia ranks approximately sixth in the ...
http://www.virginiafruit.ento.vt.edu/
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| | - The New Uses for Kenaf
Cottons cousin, kenaf, may be more attractive than it used to be to farmers because ARS researchers recently found new uses for black liquor, a byproduct of making paper from kenaf. Black liquor is usually burned for fuel or chemical recovery, but sm ...
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/aug00/kenaf0800.htm
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- The Sesame
Sesame is an ancient oilseed, first recorded as a crop in Babylon and Assyria over 4000 years ago. The crop has since spread from the Fertile Crescent of the Ancient Near East to be grown in many parts of the world on over 5 million acres. Acreage in ...
http://www.jeffersoninstitute.org/
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