14/02/14: VNU signs MoU with FAVA; new pest poses risk to sorghum; innovative student accomodation

Leading event organiser VNU Exhibitions Asia Pacific has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federation of Asian Veterinary Associations (FAVA) in order a collaboration that will further networking opportunities, further relationships with livestock industry partners and improve the content and management within VIV Asia and ILDEX Exhibitions.

The MoU commits the two organisations to share knowledge and expertise relating to the livestock and aquaculture industry.

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Grain sorghum in the Rio Grande Valley, South Texas, USA is under threat from a new pest only discovered in the valley last year.

Commenting on what this could mean for this year's crop, Raul Villanueva, AgriLife entomologist said the pest - the sugarcane aphid  - is potentially a serious threat to this year’s grain sorghum crop “and that so far no proven method of controlling the aphid has been found.” 

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Embarking on a degree is an exciting challenge, and for many students it often means living independently for the first time. Not many however, can say they live in a converted grain silo.


Work was recently completed on a new project in Newtown, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa
that has created a 375-bed student dormitory from a decommissioned concrete grain silo complex.

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World map depicting Asia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)