TSUAg Paves Path to Organic Transition

Faculty members from TSUAg were instrumental in the creation and execution of the Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP): Organic Agriculture Conference held from June 12 to 13 in Memphis. More than 65 participants descended upon the Christ Quest Community Church in Memphis for the two-day event, which was spearheaded by TSUAg’s Dr. Dilip Nandwani and a number of his TSUAg faculty colleagues. Dr. Nandwani has long been instrumental in the TOPP program, of which this month’s conference was but the latest chapter. Dr. Emanuel Omondi spoke on cover-crop based no-till agronomic management, Dr. Zena Clardy addressed the basics of gardening, Dr. Resham Thapa gave a talk on managing nitrogen with cover crops in organic production systems, Finis Stribling spoke on the TSU New Farmer Academy and high tunnel production, and Dr. Aditya Khanal spoke about agriculture marketing at the event.

Faculty members from TSUAg were instrumental in the creation and execution of the Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP): Organic Agriculture Conference recently held in Memphis.