Illinois students at the Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world. Credit: ADMI/K.Wozniak

What Seeing a World Wonder was Like on Our First International Trip

By John Mueller and John Pease, Supply Chain Management students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The following post was written by students on an ADM Institute-sponsored observation study tour through India in March 2015. When we hopped on the bus for the fifth day of this amazing trip, we were extremely excited to witness […]

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Contrasts in India, Day 4

By Mary Happ, senior in Crop Science, and Cruz Xu, sophomore in Supply Chain Management, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The following post was written by students on an ADM Institute-sponsored observation study tour through India in March 2015. Stepping off the domestic flight to New Delhi, it was clear we were in a whole […]

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Biosensing for Advancing Quality of Agricultural Produce in Bangladesh

By Md. Abdul Momin, Department of Farm Power and Machinery, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh This post is part of the ADM Institute’s #PreventPHL blog campaign, following up on the First International Congress on Postharvest Loss Prevention. To read more posts in the series, click here. Firstly, I am truly grateful to ADM Institute, University of Illinois, USA, for providing […]

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Traditional crop drying in Bangladesh / Photo credit: Md. Ashraful Alam

Paddy drying in Bangladesh: learning better practices to prevent drying losses

By Chayan Kumer Saha, Professor, Bangladesh Agricultural University; and Principal Investigator, drying component, USAID Postharvest Loss Reduction Innovation Lab (PHLIL), Bangladesh This post is part of the ADM Institute’s #PreventPHL blog campaign, following up on the First International Congress on Postharvest Loss Prevention. To read more posts in the series, click here. Paddy drying is often a […]

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Olive trees on a hill in the High Atlas Mountains, South Marrakech, Morocco. Olive trees are traditional cultivation and olive oil is used in food and medicinal recipes. / Photo credit:  M. Bounfour

Bringing global expertise to solve local issues in postharvest losses?

By Smael Alaoui, PLANTAE, Morocco and Malika Bounfour, ONSSA, Morocco This post is part of the ADM Institute’s #PreventPHL blog campaign, following up on the First International Congress on Postharvest Loss Prevention. To read more posts in the series, click here. Our participation to the congress allowed us to be exposed to a wide array of expertise and […]

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