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NEWS E yQ BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH Professor K. F. Gregory and Professor R. E. Smith discuss an unusually large cassava root with Dr. A. E. Reade, a post doctoral fellow who has recently arrived from Aberdeen to work on the University involved in research for Latin America cassava project. Professor Gregory is project co- ordinator of an $82,114 grant to the Microbiology Department. Cassava is flown in from Cali, University of Guelph research on cassava may does not require long absences abroad of Colombia, after harvesting at the age of a year. mean a better diet for humans and animals in faculty and potential interruptions of depart- Normally a cassava root is only two or three other parts of the world. Professor H. R. Binns, mental programs. inches in diameter. Director of the Centre for International The evolution of the program illustrates one Programs at the University, has announced the of the main functions of the Centre for Inter- Science, are all working on this project as multi-discipline involvement of Guelph in a national Programs. This is to seek or create well. long term international program on the relevant and effective opportunities for Professor T. P. Phillips, Agricultural Econ- tropical root crop, cassava, better known as international activities and for cooperation omics and Extension Education, is project tapioca or manioc. This staple food for with institutions overseas, by departments or coordinator of a $39,169 grant for a one year humans in many parts of the world also individual faculty members at Guelph wishing study into the potential utility of cassava provides an important source of swine feed. for such international involvement. and future markets for the root crop as a The Guelph program is being carried out The Canadian International Development guide to future cassava/swine research by in collaboration with the International Centre Agency is providing $3,250,000 in grants over CIAT. This project will analyse three global for Tropical Agriculture (known as CIAT a five year period, with $2,500,000 to be markets: cassava as a human food, as an from the Spanish initials) near Cali, Colombia, spent at CIAT and $750,000 at Canadian animal feed and cassava for industrial starch and is financed by the Canadian International institutions. Guelph's share of this money production. Professor Phillips will make Development Agency. CI DA is interested in will be used for research into many aspects investigations in the United States, Europe, research on cassava because it is the staple food of cassava growth and use by the departments Colombia, Brazil, Nigeria and Thailand in this of the tropics, of Africa and Asia as well as of Microbiology, Nutrition, Horticultural study. Project consultants are Professor T. K. Central and South America, and because Science, Land Resource Science, Crop Science, Warley, Professor B. B. Perkins and Professor little research has been done on the plant Environmental Biology, Food Science, School J. C. Flinn. compared to other worldwide crops like of Engineering and the School of Agricultural A grant of $10,170 has been made for a two- wheat, maize and rice. Economics & Extension Education. year study into nutrient deficiencies of the The University of Guelph is one of several The largest grant of $82,114 is for a two plant by Professor T. E. Bates of Land research institutions cooperating with CIAT year project in research on cassava enrichment Resource Science. The objective is to deter- on cassava research. Work is also being done with microbial protein for better swine mine under greenhouse conditions in Guelph on maize, rice, soybeans and cowpeas, beef nutrition. This involves two research programs, the critical levels, and symptoms caused by cattle and swine, all in relationship to one into developing a process for the produc- typical deficiencies, of important macro- and increased food production and economic tion of a biomass from cassava and supple- micro-nutrients of cassava. development in the lowland tropics of Latin mental non-protein nitrogen with a protein A grant of $7,682 has been made to Profes- America. Although CIAT is located in content adequate as a complete ration for sor A. Zitnak of Horticultural Science and Colombia, it deals with problems affecting on-site feeding of swine, and another program Professor D. C. Hill of Nutrition to develop much larger areas of South and Central of research into developing a process for the methodology and laboratory techniques for America. economic production of a silage from a much larger Guelph research project into This new international program at Guelph cassava roots and supplemental non-protein the problem of the toxicity of cassava. has several advantageous features. It is the nitrogen with the protein content increased Several crop scientists will share a grant of first substantial Guelph involvement in Latin by microbial synthesis. Professor K. F. $8,310 to determine the response of cassava America, and the first long-term link with one Gregory is project coordinator. Working with to a variety of environmental conditions and of the international institutes financed by the him are Professor G. W. Anderson, Professor inputs in growth cabinets and field trials. Inter-Agency Consultative Group of the L. N. Gibbins, Professor R. E. Smith, and Professor E. E. Gamble has returned after World Bank (this group administers and Dr. A. E. Reade, all of Microbiology. spending several months at Cali preparing pro- finances four international institutes for Professor S. J. Slinger, Professor J. C. posals for this project. Professor L. A. Hunt agricultural research in the tropics, are Alexander and Professor J. Holmes, Nutrition; and Professor R. B. Hunter of Crop Science founded by the Ford and Rockefeller Founda- Professor A. G. Meiering, Engineering; are submitting proposals for initial limited tions). The Guelph program consists of Professor J. D. Cunningham, Environmental Continued on page 5. international activities here on campus, but Biology; and Professor C. L. Duitshaever, Food Guelph geographers Enrolment passes projections participate in world The figures are still not final, but with registra- the College. Why this upswing in OAC enrolment? geographical congress tion over the latest computer printouts from the "In 1967 we recognized that high school University of Guelph show a total student students, particularly those in urban centres, enrolment of 8,510. considered the B.Sc.(Agr.) program a training Members of the Department of Geography "We're extremely pleased with the registra- course for farmers," says Professor G. M. have been active this summer as major tion picture," says Arnold Holmes, University Jenkinson, Assistant to the Dean. "We have participants in the 22nd International Registrar. "Undergrad enrolment is up about attempted to rectify that situation by Geographical Congress held in Montreal. 600 from last year." emphasizing the basic science aspects of the The Congress was attended by some 3,000 Breaking down the overall figure, the curriculum and then illustrating their applica- delegates from 77 countries. Montreal was University has 7,898 undergrad students, 382 tion to some particular phase of agricultural selected over Moscow as the site for this of these classified as part time, and 612 production and related industries." Congress which has never before been held graduate students registered. The greatest Professor Jenkinson points out that about in Canada, and occurs every four years. undergraduate enrolment is still in the Bachelor half of the B.Sc.(Agr.) students are from Members of Guelph's Department of of Arts program with 2,756 students registered, urban areas and only five to 10 per cent of Geography were prominent as organizers of followed by the Bachelor of Science program the graduating class go back to the farm. symposia, convenors of paper sections, readers with 1,680. Next comes the Bachelor of Another reason for the great interest in of papers, and chairmen of sessions. Professor Science in Agriculture program with 999 agricultural programs is the desire of students John L. Girt organized a Symposium on students. for more structured and career-oriented Medical Geography which was held at the An interesting figure is the total under- programs, and the availability of employment University of Guelph from August 1 - 4 and graduate enrolment of the Ontario Agricultural opportunities for agricultural science graduates, was attended by 30 delegates from 11 College — 1,529, the largest in the history of says Professor Jenkinson. countries. In addition to the geographers at this symposium, a number of veterinarians acted as discussant of a paper on China. In Dr. John N. Jackson of Brock University, from OVC, and members of the Department the sessions on Physical Geography, Professor of the Urban Section. Professor Dahms was of Nutrition attended. Eiju Yatsu was discussant for several papers, responsible for the organization of the program In the main meetings in Montreal, Professor and Professor Allan Falconer read two papers, of urban papers. This program consisted of G. T. Bloomfield chaired two sessions on one on the Objectives and Methods in the 36 papers by geographers from 15 countries. Historical Geography, and Professor A. M. Study of Glacier Depositional Landforms, and It comprised 14 one and one half hour Fuller chaired a session on Agricultural another on, Simulation Studies of ERTS A sessions on six days of the Congress and was Geography. Professor F. Hung read a paper on, and B Data for Hydrologic Studies in the Lake attended by a total of 750 participants. The Tea Culture System of East Asia in the Ontario Basin. The following members of the Geography Agricultural Section and Professor K. C. Tan Professor F. A. Dahms, was co-convenor with Department also attended the Congress and participated in various sessions: F. Adams, Professor B.

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