UK and Vietnam Turns Agricultural Waste into Biofuels
Vietnam has been known as a center of rice production while waste rice straw is a potential source of biofuels. Thus, the Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the British Embassy sponsored a UK-Vietnam Workshop on Biofuels in Hanoi, Vietnam. Experts from UK met with their counterparts in Vietnam to discuss possible research initiatives.
Later this year, six young Vietnamese researchers will visit the UK to see the cutting edge work on second generation biofuels. Two of the researchers will be hosted by the Institute of Food Research and will be able to use the new Steam Explosion Unit and help devise strategies in converting agricultural waste into biofuels.
The original article is available at http://news.ifr.ac.uk/2012/04/uk-vietnam-biofuels-workshop/
This article is part of the Crop Biotech Update, a weekly summary of world developments in agri-biotech for developing countries, produced by the Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology, International Service for the Aquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications SEAsiaCenter (ISAAA)
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