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Central Asian Apricots from the Thatcher Research Location

Improving Perennial Plants for Food and Bioenergy (IPPFBE) is non-profit (501.c.3) corporation. We believe that there is great unexploited potential to develop perennial crops for the sus­tainable production of food and bioener­gy on marginal cropland, steep or sloping range, or on fragile soils—land that is currently unproductive. We are breeding many different types of trees, shrubs, and grasses in our research locations, selecting for high yield crops that are frost-resistant, drought-tolerant, and disease-resistant. Our results have been very encouraging and we move ahead with enthusiasm. We hold that perennial trees, shrubs, grasses, le­gumes, and forbs adapted to land not suitable for sustainable production of cultivated annual crops, such as corn, wheat, or rice, will produce much of the added food, timber, fuel, and fiber needed to feed, house, and supply energy to the world’s poor and hungry.

The Chairman and President of IPPFBE recently wrote an article for the Nutshell, the newsletter for NNGA.  Please click on the following link to see the full article.
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