When universities across the country competed to be the site of a supercomputer that will be more powerful than any other general-purpose computer currently in operation, the National Science Foundation chose UT's Texas Advanced Computing Center for the $59 million project. When universities across the country competed to be the site of a supercomputer that will be more powerful than any other general-purpose computer currently in operation, the National Science Foundation chose UT's Texas...

The number of farmers continues to drop, feeding both the idea of putting together programs to encourage young farmers and the idea of changing from a commodity-based approach to a rural development approach in farm policy. Leaders of the cotton and rice producer groups have balked at stricter payment limitations, calling them an attack on their way of life because the cost of production per acre is higher for their crops. Also, as the person who often tries to bring state and national...

The southern African country is a major tobacco exporter in the world, accounting for five percent of the world's total exports and two percent of world's total production. The Tobacco Association of Malawi (TAMA), which promotes and protects tobacco farmers' interests, says that the leaf also accounts for 13 percent of the country's gross domestic product and makes up 23 percent of the tax base. Green gold is the term that Malawians use for the country's tobacco. The nation derives up to...

Located in the northernmost region of Lampung province, the regency of Tulangbawang boasts a long and glorious history that has left no trace of itself in our present time. Today, the regency plays host to 24 multinational companies, including cassava flour and palm oil producer PT Bumi Waras, shrimp farm company PT Dipasena Citra Darmaja, sugar producer PT Silva Indo Lampung, palm oil plantation owner PT Silva Indah Perkasa and rubber producer PT Huma Indah Mekar. But the regency, which...

Maine's experience with inshore salmon farming, combined with aquaculture research being conducted at the University of New Hampshire and the University of Maine, gives the region an opportunity to be an industry leader, said Steve Page, president of Ocean Farm Technologies of Searsmont. With the federal government now pushing hard for the development of offshore fish farms, the Gulf of Maine is playing a central role in the debate over whether farming in deep ocean waters is...