Ko te hanga i te Whare Hangarau Rangahau Ahuwhenua hou a te USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) i Salinas, California, i timata i te 26 o Akuhata me te huihuinga mariko me te waahi ora.
Ko te whare rangahau hou, ka uru atu ki nga taiwhanga hou, nga whare kati me te kaha mo etahi atu kaiputaiao, ka hanga i runga i te ARS Crop Improvement and Protection Research Laboratory o naianei i Salinas.
“Kia oti tenei whare hou, ka taea e tatou te ahu whakamua i a tatou rangahau mo te whakangao totika o nga hua huawhenua me nga hua huarākau—te rangahau he mea tino nui ki te angitu o te waahanga ahuwhenua nui o California. A ka taea e matou te whakawhānui ake i nga mahi tahi me o maatau hoa roa i te Whare Wananga o California, Davis, kua tata ki te 100 tau e mahi tahi ana ki a matou i runga i nga momo kaupapa kanorau o nga kaupapa e uru ana ki nga hua kai me nga hua ahumahi, "e kii ana te Kaiwhakahaere ARS. Chavonda Jacobs-Young.
Māngai Jimmy Panetta (D-CA, 20th), me te Mangai kua reti a Sam Farr me te Pihopa o Sanford (D-GA, 2).nd), i arahi te utu mo nga whare rangahau hou. "Ma te tino whakawhänui i a mätou whakaurunga, ka awhina i te rangahau auaha mo nga hua me nga huawhenua kia pai ai te mahi ki o taatau kaihoko, hunga whai paanga, me te hapori putaiao," ko ta James D. McCreight, te Kaihautu Rangahau o te ARS Crop, Improvement and Protection Research Unit.
Ko etahi atu i korero i te wahanga whenua ko:
- Chris Valadez, Perehitini, Grower-Shipper Association o Central California
- Rick Tomlinson, Perehitini, California Strawberry Commission
- Jennifer Clarke, Kaiwhakahaere Matua, California Leafy Greens Research Programme
- Jessy Beckett Parr, Kaiwhakahaere Kaupapa, California Certified Organic Farmers Foundation
- Brise Tencer, Kaiwhakahaere Matua, Organic Farming Research Foundation
te Ratonga Rangahau Ahuwhenua Ko te tari matua o te Tari Ahuwhenua o Amerika te tari rangahau puta noa i te whare. I ia ra, ka arotahi te ARS ki nga whakataunga mo nga raru ahuwhenua e pa ana ki Amerika. Ia taara i whakangao ki te rangahau ahuwhenua ka puta te $ 20 o te paanga ohaoha.
- Kim Kaplan, ARS