IPB opens training project

IPB opens training project

BOGOR: The Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) began on
Monday a farm management training project for arid areas, with
participants from 11 African countries.

The participants came from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Madagascar,
Swaziland, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Gambia, the Ivory Coast, Egypt
and Seychelles.

The project, which will end on Feb. 20, is a part of the Non-
Alliance Movement Center of South to South Technical Cooperation,
which was established in 1995.

The executive director of the organizing committee, Adityawidi
Adiwoso, said the classroom work at the IPB campus in Dermaga
would be followed by field study in Gunung Kidul, Yogyakarta. --
JP