Event Announcement: Business Angel Forum

The Faculty of Agriculture, University of Mauritius, in collaboration with the Mauritius Research Council (under the aegis of the Ministry of Tertiary Education, Science, Research and Technology), is organising a Business Angels Forum in the field of Agribusiness/Food Industry on the 15 November 2010 at the Paul Octave Wiehe Auditorium(POWA), Réduit (http://www.uom.ac.mu/sites/BusinessAngels/).

The aim of the Forum is to provide a platform where those with business ideas can present and discuss their commercially viable ideas to Business Angels (potential investors). Innovative ideas can be in any of the following:

• New products
• New techniques
• New processes
• New services
• New machinery/equipment
• Agro-waste reuse/recycling

For more information, please see the advert here.

For further assistance you may contact Assoc. Prof. Daya Goburdhun on 403 7691 or daya@uom.ac.mu.

BEST LIVESTOCK FARMER COMPETITION

MINISTRY OF AGRO INDUSTRY AND FOOD SECURITY

WORLD FOOD DAY 2010:   BEST LIVESTOCK FARMER COMPETITION

The year 2010 marks the 30^th World Food Day. On this occasion, the FAO has chosen a theme which depicts well the world greatest challenge of all the time:

Disease Alert – Anthracnose disease on Litchi

Prevailing climatic conditions (high temperature and high relative humidity) are highly conducive for the development and spread of Anthracnose on litchi fruits caused by Colletotrichum sp.

Symptoms comprise brown to dark areas on fruits (immature and mature fruits).  Infected fruits may eventually rot.

Des efforts récompensés de Madame Devinha Parboo

Avian Influenza

Introduction

The H5N1 virus of Avian influenza is a serious threat both to the poultry species and to human beings. Incubation period for this disease is 3 to 7 days.  This disease is infectious and all birds are thought to be susceptible to the infection, though some species are more resistant than others.  Infection causes a wide spectrum of symptoms in birds ranging from illness to a highly contagious and rapidly fatal disease resulting in severe epidemics characterised by sudden on set, severe illness and death, with a mortality that can approach 100%. The quarantining of infected farms and destruction of infected or potentially exposed flocks are standard control measures aimed at preventing spread to other farms and eventual establishment of the virus country’s poultry population.

Sensitisation Campaign:  Avian Influenza

List of meetings organised by the Livestock Extension Division of AREU, scheduled for the month of November 2005.

Blended fertilizers

New Recommendations for Sugar Cane

New recommendations for fertilizer application in sugar cane fields have been released by the Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute in April 2005. The new formulations of blended NPK fertilizers are more concentrated and contain more NPK than the “traditional” NPK complex/blended fertilizers 17-8-25 and 17-2-27 formulations.