Research facility of USDA/ARS in New Orleans restarts
28 Aug '06
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After hurricane Katrina, USDA/ARS' Southern Regional Research Center at New Orleans started its operation of cotton and cottonseeds research projects.
Ed King, Director of USDA/ARS research said that employees were to resume work at the end of July.
He also said that ginning lab head Stanley Anthony would leave the centre in January 2007 and they are looking for another person to fill his place.
Cotton seed market is facing several problems and one of them is the size of cotton seeds, which is getting smaller; this diminishes value to ginning cotton as it damages seed coat during ginning process.
Yield of this smaller size cotton seed has increased and it is up to cotton growers to have large cotton seeds or more yields, King stated.
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