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Makhteshim Agan of North America, Inc.

Headquartered in Raleigh, NC, MANA currently offers over 50 branded insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, PGRs and harvest aids from a portfolio of more than 40 strategic active ingredients. MANA also supplies active ingredients and end-use products to other marketers and distributors in North America.

The CropLife Network

CropLife Africa Middle East

CropLife Africa Middle East, a member of CropLife International, represents the plant science industry and a network of national associations in 30 countries in Africa and the Middle East. The "Plant Science Industry" includes manufacturers and distributors of crop protection products (pesticides) seeds and biotechnology products.

Crop Protection Facts

Today, growers of many U.S. crops hire independent professional consultants to manage their product use and only request applications of crop protection products when a problem arises. They also use products that are specific to the pests present. This has led some crops, like cotton, to reduce product applications from 20 or 40 applications per year down to 4 or 5.

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The Borlaug CAST Communication Award

The Borlaug CAST Communication Award is dedicated to Dr. Norman Borlaug, author of the first CAST publication in 1973, and to Dr. Charles A. Black, the first President and Executive Vice President of CAST. These two men embody the passion and dedication to agricultural research and technology that this award is designed to reward.

2011 Borlaug Cast Communication Award Winner Announced

The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology announces Catherine Bertini as the winner of the prestigious 2011 Borlaug CAST Communication Award. Bertini, a respected leader who has communicated the importance of agriculture and science through numerous humanitarian programs, serves as a professor of public administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, a senior fellow in agricultural development at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and a cochair of the Global Agricultural Development Initiative. 

This year's award is sponsored by the CropLife Foundation, an organization dedicated to science-based research and discovery in modern agriculture.

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