Food Resources Education and Research CenterFACILITYPear pickingGrass cutting for cattle feedSweet potato plantingCattle barnGreenhouseFeeding to cattleJapanese black cattleRice transplantingThe Food Resources Education and Research Center is located in the central area of Banshu Plains in Kasai City. It is approximately 70 km west of Rokko-dai campus where the Graduate School of Agricultural Science is located. The Center holds 40 ha land areas including 28.3 ha of field areas for cultivation (paddy rice fields, orchard, grass and forage field, etc.). There are three agricultural production sections: crop (e.g., rice, soybean, cabbage, onion, potato, and sweet potato), fruits (e.g., grape, pear, and kaki) and livestock (e.g., beef cattle along with forage crops and grasses). The Center engages in educational, research, and local-community activities based on the real-scale and high-quality agricultural production.The importance of practical farm training is worthwhile emphasized, as there exist discrepancies between food production and its consumption in the contemporary society. Our aim is to provide an opportunity to capture the essence of agriculture and to deepen the thoughts for agricultural science by experiencing real scale agriculture. The Center has been approved as a Joint Usage/Education Center in Japan by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology since 2014. The Center carries out the farming practices for undergraduates from universities in the Kansai region as well as from Kobe University.To accomplish sustainable agriculture, researches are conducted primarily through genetic approaches such as genetic improvement in plants and prediction of genetic merits in animals. We research on exploration, collection, identification, preservation, evaluation, control, and utilization of plant genetic resources to find efficient breeding programs and develop new breeding materials for sustainable food strategies. More efficient and sustain-able animal breeding systems are researched through the analyses of genetic evaluation and structure in animal resources. In addition to the genetic approaches, efficient use of farm implements and information technology is also explored based on biological and ecological traits of the crops, such as mechanical weeding without agrochemicals or no-tillage cultivation with significantly less energy input, from a direct viewpoint of the sustainabili-ty. Three research fields “Animal Genetic Resources”, “Plant Germplasm Enhancement” and “Field Machinery and Plant Production” of the Graduate School of Agricultural Science are stationed in the Center, which provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to earn Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD degrees.Agricultural products as outcomes of education and research activities are sold at market, known as Kobe University's "Beef", "Potato", "Onion", "Pear", "Grape", etc. High quality Japanese sake with a brand name of "Kami-no-Manimani" is also produced by our collaboration with sake-brewing company. For more details about the Center, please access our website: https://www.edu.kobe-u.ac.jp/ans-foodres/19
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