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APPROXIMATELY three hundred research workers are expected to participate in the first South American Congress of Research Workers in Agronomy, of whom some 220 will represent the Argentine, Brazil and Uruguay and the remainder will come from the other South American countries and the United States. The Congress will be held during November 13-19, and the meeting place will be the Experiment Station of La Estanzuela in Uruguay, suitable alike for its relatively central position and for the signal services it has rendered to South American agricultural research. Five sections will discuss (1) climate and soil, or general ecological questions ; (2) crops and herbage husbandry ; (3) animal husbandry ; (4) the industrialization of agricultural products ; and (5) agriculture and the man, or rural sociology and economics, including marketing problems. Organisation is in the hands of a Uruguayan committee representing government and university authorities under the presidency of Dr. A. Boerger, director of La Estanzuela. The problems to be attacked are such as have no national frontiers but are confined solely by ecological limits.
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South American Congress of Research Workers in Agronomy. Nature 164, 736 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164736c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164736c0