India visit August 2022
Mondira Bhattacharya visited India in August to give more training on protocol for the farmer survey and subsequent analysis and visited a number of field sites.
WP4 meeting July 2022
A workshop to finalise the survey and analysis protocols for the discussions with smallholder farmers was held at the University of Reading. The workshop was led by Mondira Bhattacharya and attended by Tapan Adhikari (IISS Bhopal), Hazem Kassem (Mansoura University)...
WP4 visit to Egypt May 2022
Henny Osbahr and Mondira Bhattacharya from the University of Reading, who are leading the work package on how farmers use and manage plastics, visited Hazem Kassem at Mansoura University in Egypt. During their visit discussions were held with farmer groups from three...
UK partners meeting May 2022
The first in-person meeting of the UK partners took place at Bangor University on 17-18 May 2022, with lots of discussion about ongoing work and plans for the future.
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Prof. Xuejun Liu and I had a podcast interview about agricultural plastics and microplastics. Here is the link:
Call for paper--We are organizing a special issue on "Agricultural plastic's application and problems”in Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering. Please see the detail in the link: https://journal.hep.com.cn/fase/EN/column/item2894.shtml
Naziru Ibrahim from Nigeria, a master student in my group, was just reported by the media, Ta Kung Pao, Hong Kong. He works on microplastic and pesticide residues in soils, supported by GCRF Agriplastics Project and the Scholarship of Sino-Africa Science and Technology Backyard.
Check out our new paper on how LDPE, PLA/PBAT, and no #plastic mulch film application affect nitrogen partitioning, plant development, and soil properties in a field setting 🔎🌱
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929139324003263