Purdue Extension Across the Globe

Darrin Karcher, associate professor of animal sciences, is a poultry management expert, so in most ways the assignment was typical: help a group of farmers figure out how to improve their egg yield.

But unlike many Purdue Extension projects through Purdue’s College of Agriculture, this one was not in Indiana, but some 2,500 miles southeast, in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago.

Leah Thompson is a graduate student in the Department of Animal Sciences, so she’s used to field work. But this field work was far from the corn and soybeans of the Midwest — in Battambang Province, known as the “rice bowl of Cambodia.”

While these landscapes were new to Karcher and Thompson, international projects are not new to the College of Agriculture. Purdue Extension specialists and students are involved in programs across the globe, from Trinidad and Tobago and Cambodia to Iraq and Laos. They partner with local universities, government agencies and other stakeholders, working to teach and build capacity.

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