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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.
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