Crop scientists win £3m funding to make peas and beans more climate-resilient
A research consortium led by the John Innes Centre in Norwich has won £3m of Defra funding to develop more climate-resilient pea and bean crops.
Agricultural editor
Chris Hill is the agricultural editor for the Eastern Daily Press and its Agricultural Review supplement - covering farming, food, the environment and other countryside issues across Norfolk and Suffolk. Winner of the 2022 Timothy Colman Prize, presented by the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association (RNAA) for outstanding contribution to Norfolk’s food, farming and countryside, and twice winner of the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists’ Stuart Seaton award for regional agricultural journalists.
Chris Hill is the agricultural editor for the Eastern Daily Press and its Agricultural Review supplement - covering farming, food, the environment and other countryside issues across Norfolk and Suffolk. Winner of the 2022 Timothy Colman Prize, presented by the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association (RNAA) for outstanding contribution to Norfolk’s food, farming and countryside, and twice winner of the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists’ Stuart Seaton award for regional agricultural journalists.
A research consortium led by the John Innes Centre in Norwich has won £3m of Defra funding to develop more climate-resilient pea and bean crops.
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