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THE Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME), represented by the Agricultural Research Department, participated in the ‘17th Conference on Biotechnology and Microbiology’ in London, recently. The conference was organised by Animal and Plant Health Agency APHA and FERA.
The ministry’s participation comes as part of its keenness to develop work in scientific research and to enhance ties with various countries to serve common interests and goals.
Its participation also aims to train researchers in the ministry and develop their specialised and research capacities in the field of agriculture, biotechnology, animal and plant research, food security, bee health, crop protection, food and feed quality, and environmental safety.
On the sidelines of the conference, the ministry’s delegation led by Head of the Agricultural Research Department Hamad Sakit al Shammari, presented a number of research papers in areas related to marine environment and environmental microbes.
Amina al Malki presented a research paper on the importance of rare microbes newly discovered in the Qatari marine environment and Dr Mai al Ghanem touched on the importance of marine environment organisms, especially environmental microbes, in finding new, natural alternatives for use as antibiotics and insecticides.
Reem al Haydoos spoke on the importance of use of modern techniques in microbiology and biotechnology in the study and identification of the genetic origin of marine organisms such as ‘fish’.
In this context, the ministry, represented by the Agricultural Research Department on the sidelines of the conference, held a number of consultative meetings with the officials of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), APHA and FERA, to discuss joint research, as well as issues such as food safety, agricultural crops and aquaculture.
They also discussed the importance of controlling antimicrobial microbes, monitoring endemic diseases and new and emerging threats in pastoral and terrestrial animals.
Furthermore, they discussed crop health, bio-security, food and feed safety, quality and risks of environmental pollution on food, fodder, pest control, insect use as a source of protein, and food for animals and fish.
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15/05/2019
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