The Director General of the World Vegetable Center, Dr. Marco Wopereis gave a talk entitled "Exploring avenues for collaboration between the World Vegetable Center and NARO" at the Tsukuba Agriculture Research Hall Orientation Room on January 31, 2018 in conjunction with his visit to the NARO Headquarters. A total of 37 participants attended the seminar including 13 participants from the Anou Vegetable Research Station of the Institute of Vegetable and Floriculture Science in Mie Prefecture connected via video conference system. Dr. Wopereis talked about various research initiatives at the World Vegetable Center focusing on breeding of improved vegetable varieties, safe production practices and nutritional values of vegetable crops.
