Students Invited to Take Part in CropWorld Poster Competition

Students Invited to Take Part in CropWorld Poster Competition PR Newswire LONDON, July 27, 2012 LONDON, July 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Post-graduate students engaged in research on crop science, agriculture and related subjects are invited to take part in the CropWorld 2012 Poster Competition to showcase their work. thEntrants should submit a 300 word abstract by 4 September 2012, and thfinalists will be notified by 5 October, and will need to produce an A1 poster to ndbe displayed at CropWorld by 2 November. The competition is being sponsored by the British Crop Production Council who will be awarding a top prize of £500, a second prize of £250 and a third prize of £100. CropWorld Global 2012 is the leading international conference on crop science and is being held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, from th ththe 6 - 7 November. Representatives of leading organisations in the science, agriculture and finance sectors will be appearing as speakers including senior executives from Monsanto, Unilever, Yara, the NFU, CABI, and the Brazilian agricultural research corporation Embrapa. The first day of the conference will host plenary sessions discussing and debating the critical issues surrounding the delivery of sustainable agricultural intensification in the world's key crop production areas and whether it can be achieved in practice. It will also look at global commodity prices, harvest round up and planning forecast for 2013.