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Teacher wins food production scholarship

Posted December 4, 2008 13:33:00

A Darling Downs teacher has won a scholarship to study ways to boost food production by up to 70 per cent.

Joe Garnham works at the Australian Agricultural College at Dalby and will go to the United States, where farmers are using new composts to improve their crops.

Mr Garnham says increasing the humus content in composts immediately improves the quality of crops.

"This is founded in research results that there's potential for up to 70 per cent increase in yields and that can only be good for the producer," he said.

"And with current population and increasing populations ... it can only be good for populations as well."

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