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Country: Nicaragua
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Award Date: 1999
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Award Amount: $97,800.00
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Cost Share: $74,400.00
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This partnership enhanced postharvest agriculture programs at educational institutions in Nicaragua. Four Nicaraguan students completed a nine-month postgraduate certificate program in postharvest biology and technology at the University of California, Davis (UCD), and nine attended an intensive postharvest technology short-course, also at UCD. Other significant accomplishments include developing a Spanish-language UCD postharvest technology web page and forming a Postharvest Team at Universidad Nacional Agraria (UNA), comprised primarily of national postharvest experts. The partners led efforts to systematically improve postharvest technology in Nicaragua, develop a Nicaragua-based postharvest web site, and arrange for faculty exchanges. For its agricultural development activities, the team secured a $4 million donation from the Japan International Cooperation Agency. As a result of the partnership, UCD further refined its postgraduate certificate program, and UNA developed two new agriculture courses and is developing a postharvest technology short-course modeled after one at UCD.
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