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monday, august 31, 1981
daily nebraskan
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oroccan project to improve farm productivity
By Perry Jensen
Helping to improve the productivity of farms located
in near-desert conditions is the aim of an agricultural
research station recently set up in Morocco, project
director Donald C. Ilanway of the UNL Agronomy
Department said.
"In February, a contract was signed to help Morocco
develop research capabilities in agriculture," Hanway said.
The Mid-American Agriculture Consortium chose UNL
to head the Moroccan project. The consortium is compris
ed of UNL, Iowa "State University, Kansas State Univer
sity, the University of Missouri and the University of
Oklahoma. It is designed to cooperate with international
development of agriculture, Hanway said.
In February, B.R. Bertramson and Henri Talleyrand
were the first UNL staff members to go to Morocco,
Hanway said. Donald Bray went there in July. They will
be in the northwest African country for two years. Han
way said he also traveled to Morocco to do detailed
planning for the next couple of years.
"Morocco is a semi-arid land that receives only eight to
15 inches of rain a year,' Hanway said. uAnd in the sum
mer, a high pressure system builds up over the area, and
there is no rain from May until September.'
Crops, consisting mainly of wheat and barley, must be
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December through February. The barley is then harvested
in May and the wheat in June, Hanway said.
He said the research station will try to develop "new
technologies" to increase yields.
The main problem in Morocco is that present farming
practices keep the land bare, Hanway said, causing soU
erosion, a long-range threat to the land.
If yields increase, Morocco could slow down its rapidly
increasing wheat imports. This would help Morocco
become a more self-supportive nation. It also would help
Morocco raise its standard of living, which is extremely
low, Hanway said.
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goal at Dairy Store
By Carol Harrah
For over 50 years, the UNL Dairy Store in Filley Hall
on East Campus has served as an educational tool for stu
dents as well as an inexpensive shop.
The store offers a low-priced assortment of university
made cheeses, ice cream and other dairy products.
Jill Gifford, manager of the UNL Dairy Store, said that
the store's original purpose was to train food science
students.
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"When the store was first begun, its main purpose was
to teach different processes of food making to food sci
ence majors, but many things have come about from
this," Gifford said.
From this beginning, Gifford said, the store has grown
into a shop that sells the finished products and provides
several full-time jobs and part-time jobs for college stu
dents. "Students can benefit from the work experience,"
Gifford said. "We hire students with various majors, not
just those in food science . . ."
The non-profit dairy store uses money from food sales
to help pay operational costs. The university provides
financial assistance to enable the dairy store to offer its
products at low prices.
"We do go through slow periods (on sales), so the uni
versity does help where it's needed," Gifford said. "One
way that we are different from other businesses is that we
do not have to pay rent, since it is university property."
Gifford said ice cream cones are popular from April
through October. She said store employees keep busy
mailing our gift boxes of cheese during the Christmas
season.
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