Walters Helps Afghans Improve Farming Techniques
December 16, 2009
December 16, 2009
CARBONDALE, Ill., Dec. 16 -- Southern Illinois University issued the following news release:
Ignore the desert hills looming behind the vegetable plots, and it could be just another field day of the sort Southern Illinois University Carbondale's College of Agricultural Sciences regularly hosts for regional farmers. Experts give talks, growers ask questions, and the usual big meal caps off the event.
But those dry hills, the headscarves worn by the women and the need . . .
Ignore the desert hills looming behind the vegetable plots, and it could be just another field day of the sort Southern Illinois University Carbondale's College of Agricultural Sciences regularly hosts for regional farmers. Experts give talks, growers ask questions, and the usual big meal caps off the event.
But those dry hills, the headscarves worn by the women and the need . . .