EcoChem is an eco friendly, bio based company engaged in innovation, product development and manufacturing. Established in 1998, the company offers products and services that contribute to the movement toward self regulation and voluntary compliance in matters associated with sustainable agriculture, waste management, the environment and other life science sectors. With innovations based on science, EcoChem is helping to put the principles of sustainability into practice. EcoChem products are produced using constituents derived from naturally occurring and sustainable sources. Their eco friendly products are highly efficient, have no adverse affect on the environment and are not harmful to animals, plants and humans. In addition, they can be manufactured, transported, applied and disposed of safely.

EcoChem is committed to conserving natural resources and minimizing the environmental impact of our activities. Accordingly, our production process does not utilize thermal energy, does not produce a waste stream. Wherever possible we use recyclable packaging materials. EcoChem has a global reach and offers innovative eco friendly solutions that can meet the specific needs of almost any application. We are dedicated to maintaining our reputation for superior environmentally safe products and services and providing our clients with solutions that improve their productivity – one project at a time. Whether you have an emergency, a tight deadline or an accelerated requirement for product, we have the capacity to meet your requirements.

For more information, please visit http://ecochem.com

All of us grow up learning that all life starts from a simple, tiny seed. We watch that seed mature, a miracle of life, and we ask ourselves where does that life come from? The answer: life starts in the soil. Our soil is teeming with life. It is rich, healthy and fertile. Unfortunately, we have a habit of working against that life. We have a habit of taking that life, the nutrients, and not returning them to the soil. They have a habit of working against nature and “the plan”. That is unacceptable!

The answer comes down to nutrients and soil life. With every crop, we mine essential life giving nutrients from the soil. For example, a corn crop removes 200 lbs of minerals not including NPK from your soil every year. These nutrients are essential to crop development both in quality and quantity. In exchange for these lost nutrients, we find ourselves pouring on more and more fertilizers to make up for the loss. Many times, these fertilizers are hazardous to the life in the soil, not to mention our own health!

For more information, please visit http://www.ussoil.net

Whether you laboriously tend your crops in a vegetable garden, or lavish all your time and attention on a hanging basket of flowers, you are among those who enjoy the simple pleasures of gardening. In an era of high stress and high technology, one of the richest pleasures in life is to stop and smell the roses especially if you have grown them yourself! SEAGRO products have been specially formulated to meet a wider variety of your gardening needs. So spend less time at the store sorting out the landslide of specialty soils and get back to the roots of your growing passion. Simplify with SEAGRO beautiful gardens, naturally!

Made from Canadian sphagnum peat moss composted with ocean fish and cattle manure, resulting in a nutrient rich compost mix which acts as a natural fertilizer, potting medium and excellent soil conditioner. Flower gardens, container gardening, vegetable gardens, trees and shrubs, lawns. Canadian sphagnum peat moss, composted ocean fish, composted cattle manure, perlite, lime. A blend of composted ocean fish and crustaceans. Used as a soil conditioner or potting medium it will ensure strong plant development essential for bright blooms and bountiful harvest.

For more information, please visit http://www.seagro.com

U Mate International, Inc. is an Arizona corporation organized in 1997 to encourage and support the active use of organic compounds as soil additives and soil resources for the better growth and development of most varieties of plants and possible uses as a soil remediation tool. U-Mate International holds rights to large tracts of land in Northwest New Mexico where known deposits of fulmic, ulmic and humic acid as well as other organic compounds are found. Collectively, these compounds are commonly referred to as “humates.” The rights are in areas where large quantities of superior quality of humates are found. Humates are extracted from the ground, pulverized, placed in granular form and packaged or placed into solution and sold under various trade names including U-Mate, Humates in Action, Bio-U-Mate, New-Mex U-Mate and New-Mex Humate.

U Mate International, Inc. is in an enviable position because its mining operations, processing site and transportation facility are located in the Gallup, New Mexico area. U-Mate International, Inc. has the flexibility of both rail transportation and motor freight option. Inasmuch as its processing facility is on a rail siding and it is located only a few miles from I-40, the California, Arizona and Mexican markets are readily accessible from this location. Transportation costs may be a significant factor in the overall use of humates.

For more information, please visit http://www.humate.com

The goal of the Latvia University of Agriculture is to provide the possibility to obtain higher academic and higher professional education in agriculture, veterinary medicine, food technology, engineering, forestry science, social science, information technologies and environment management sectors as well as to develop science and to maintain and cultivate the Latvian intellectual potential and culture. The objectives of the LLU: 1. To ensure the study quality corresponding with the standards of a national university what would allow to prepare competitive specialists for the Latvian and international labor markets. 2. To develop the scientific potential to participate in international research, to integrate the academic education and research what would ensure introduction of innovative, knowledge – based technologies into the Latvian national economy, especially, in the Zemgale region.

3. To ensure sustainable development for the university as a national education, science and culture institution:
- to strengthen the legal basis;The LLU mission is to develop the intellectual potential for sustainable future of Latvia and, especially, rural areas, LLU vision is to become a modern, internationally recognized and prestige university, taking part in the common European academic education and science space. In 1936 the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia established a new institution of higher education – the Jelgava Agriculture Academy moving the University of Latvia’s Faculty of Agriculture to the Jelgava Palace. On December 23, 1938, the State President and the Prime Minister K.Ulmanis ratified “The Constitution of the Jelgava Agriculture Academy”.

For more information, please visit http://www.llu.lv

TransCon AG is a cooperative formed by producers from the State of Missouri banded together to establish a value-added organization to improve the profitability of their farm operations. TransCon AG has acquired the trademark of the former Pony Express Brewing Company. TransCon is researching the opportunities for the grains from the fields of our producers. These grains include sorghum, soybeans, wheat, rice, corn, buckwheat and others. Having the ability to distribute these value added grains, whether in raw form, or in any other stage of processing, down to a finished product, is the ultimate goal of TransCon AG.

TransCon AG is dedicated to adding value back to Agriculture. We have an office presence and contacts in Taiwan, Japan, China and Mexico. Their Objective… is To create and develop a value-added organization that improves and expands the profitability of our farm operations. Value-added product development, promotion and sales. TransCon AG is dedicated to Agriculture and to bringing value back to the Growers that make it happen.

For more information, please visit http://www.transconag.com

NABARD is set up as an apex Development Bank with a mandate for facilitating credit flow for promotion and development of agriculture, small-scale industries, cottage and village industries, handicrafts and other rural crafts. It also has the mandate to support all other allied economic activities in rural areas, promote integrated and sustainable rural development and secure prosperity of rural areas. Through the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) Rs.8034.93 crores were disbursed during 2007-08. With this, a cumulative amount of Rs.74073.41 crore has been sanctioned for 280227 projects as on 31 March 2008 covering irrigation, rural roads and bridges, health and education, soil conservation, drinking water schemes, flood protection, forest management etc.

Promoting sustainable and equitable agriculture and rural development through effective credit support, related services, institution building and other innovative initiatives. NABARD was established in terms of the Preamble to the Act, “for providing credit for the promotion of agriculture, small scale industries, cottage and village industries, handicrafts and other rural crafts and other allied economic activities in rural areas with a view to promoting IRDP and securing prosperity of rural areas and for matters connected therewith in incidental thereto”. The Bank will serve as a refinancing institution for institutional credit such as long-term, short-term for the promotion of activities in the rural areas.

For more information, please visit http://www.nabard.org

Established in 1955, RICHARD PEARSON Ltd has over 50 years experience in the design, manufacture and marketing of a range of agricultural machinery which is sold worldwide. A British company, Richard Pearson Ltd. is dedicated to designing the finest agricultural machinery to answer the high demands for exacting standards of quality placed on potato and root crop farmers by ever more discerning buyers, who look at todays quality as tomorrows standard. Since 1963 Pearson has introduced many innovative and patented ideas, and pioneered the specialist art of soil separation in the 1970s.

The forward thinking adaptation of leading edge plastics technology and bold new ideas using hydraulics and electronics coupled to comprehensive field development, resulted in significant breakthroughs in agricultural machinery. For over 50 years Richard Pearson have built up an enviable reputation for quality. Not only in the machines we supply, but also for the After Sales support and service supplied to our customers throughout the UK and the World.
Spare parts are readily available. A fully equipped, and staffed Research and Development department is always working to maintain and improve our product range, therefore keeping Pearson Products at the forefront of Horticulture and Transplanting Technology.

For more information, please visit http://www.richardpearson.com

CIRAD is a French agricultural research organization working for development in the South and the French overseas regions. Its research work is generally conducted in partnership. CIRAD is a French research centre that works with developing countries to tackle international agricultural and development issues. CIRAD works with developing countries to generate and pass on new knowledge, support agricultural development and fuel the debate on the main global issues concerning agriculture. In response to the economic, social and environmental changes resulting from globalization, CIRAD has renewed its scientific strategy, which now centres on six priority lines of research, accompanied by a new geographical partnership strategy aimed at expanding and consolidating its international cooperation structure.

Research in partnership is CIRAD’s fundamental working principle and the keystone of its operations. The fact that it has researchers worldwide has shaped its identity and helped it to build specialized, dynamic skills centres. CIRAD’s operations centre on a certain number of values, which determines its choices and guide its approach. These values enable it to produce, transmit and evolve while respecting past achievements, the value of experience and the steadfastness of expertise . CIRAD’s operations centre on a certain number of values, which determines its choices and guide its approach. These values enable it to produce, transmit and evolve while respecting past achievements, the value of experience and the steadfastness of expertise.

For more information, please visit http://www.cirad.fr

Sitrex company was started by Mr.Giovanni Signorelli, who is founder and president, in 1970, with the production of Agricultural machinery. The small business operation from the early seventies expanded and exported products to European countries first, and then to the U.S., Canada, Australia. The company specialized in hay-equipment and export is 99% of today’s production. Products are exported to more than 60 countries. This implies offering a highly competitive product both in quality and innovative features but, above all, having a efficient network that can ensure an adequate presence in the market.

The headquarters of the company are in Trestina (Perugia) Italy where SITREX owns 3 large and modern plants with high technology machinery for accurate production and high quality standards. The flexible production system utilizes welding and assembling robots and both liquid and powder painting. In fact several machines are patented in various countries and the aim is to follow the market requirements by designing machines for specific needs of each country. Sitrex knows how to compete and market its products worldwide with decades of experience as a specialist in the agriculture industry.

For more information, please visit http://www.sitrex.com