By unlocking the export potential China offers the pig industry, not to mention the red meat sector as a whole, we could gain entry into a marketplace which comprises a fifth of the world’s population.Wanted: World leading scientist for Scotland
THE search has begun for a world-leading scientist to fill the role of chief executive at the new scientific research institute to be formed from the SCRI (Scottish Crop Research Institute), Invergowrie, and the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen.
Advertisements for the post will appear in the UK press and scientific journals next week.
The Moredun Research Institute (MRI) on the outskirts of Edinburgh - internationally recognised for its work on livestock – is expected to be an affiliate of the new institute, which is expected to open in April 2011.
Chairman of the new institute has been announced as Ray Perman, a former chair of WWF Scotland and a trustee of WWF UK. He was a board member of Scottish Enterprise until December 2009 and chair of Social Investment Scotland.
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