Sonny Ramaswamy, Director of the National Institute for Food and Agriculture
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Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), spent the day Wednesday with faculty, students and staff from the University of Maryland’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Ramaswamy took time out of his schedule to talk to faculty members about important issues facing the agricultural sector today and to answer questions about how his organization is handing uncertainties surrounding the budget and the passage of the farm bill still being debated in Congress.
Several AGNR researchers presented brief updates on projects funded through grants awarded by NIFA. NIFA continues to be a major funding source for researchers within the College of AGNR.
