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Today is a good day for SNAL which has been visited by renown soil Science Professor from University of Maryland, USA.

Prof. Weil with Prof. Camillius Sanga (The Director of SNAL)

Prof. Weil is a Research associate of SUA and has collaborative research with a Dr. Nyambilila Amuri, from the Department of Soil and Geological Science, and also serve as the Director of Undergraduate Studies, at Sokoine University of Agriculture. The research aims to improve soil sulfur fertility for high yield and protein quality legumes.

Prof. Weil with Dr. Nyambilila Amuri (The Director of Undergraduate Studies)

It is a good to know that Prof. Weil started the idealization of drafting his book long time ago when he was a visiting Researcher at Uyole Agricultural Research, now Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) Uyole.

He has a number of different book tittles under his co-authorship. The recently donated book to SUA is in Fourth Edition.

We anticipate SUA community will enjoy the reading of the donated book. SNAL appreciate the good will shown by Prof. Weil and welcomes other donor. Prof. Weil remarks is that “I am to inspire all students at SUA to love our soils”

Among the ways to increase and promote various publications and information in any Library, receiving gifts or support is one of the main ways apart from buying

Recently former employee at Sokoine Agricultural University (SUA) Prof. Aida C. Isinika who was at the Institute of Continuing Education (ICE) & CoEBS and who has done a lot of consulting work in the agriculture and development sector has gifted the Sokoine National Agricultural Library (SNAL) about 230 books and thus increasing the number of publications in that library.

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Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MoEST) has set aside 1 billion in the budget of 2022/23 to incentivize the best researchers in Tanzania who will publish in reputable and outstanding journals with the highest impact factor. An incentive of 50 million shillings will be given  to science and medical researchers who will be able to publish the results of their research in the highest-ranking journals in the world. Therefore, MoEST expect to incentivize 20 winners of this award for the best researchers. Our simple analysis has shown that Tanzania researchers have published 25 jointly journal papers with other collaborators found in different countries. For more information please follow the link below

https://www.moe.go.tz/sw/article/shilingi-bilioni-moja-kutolewa-kwa-watafiti-profmkenda

More than twenty news articles are featuring on ScienceDaily. Science Daily is one among the prestige web portal publishing success story from outstanding researches around the globe. Thus, ScienceDaily features breaking news about the latest discoveries in science, health, the environment, technology, and more from leading universities, scientific journals, and research organizations.

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In order to obtain the list of success stories featured on Science Daily, we have searched the ScienceDaily portal with keywords: SUA and Sokoine Unversity of Agriculture. Also, we have searched the names of the top 600 ranked researchers on Google Scholar.

Results
We have found that there are 24 news articles featuring SUA researchers on ScienceDaily.
SUA is proud for the achievement of our researchers with their collaborators whose project success stories are featuring on ScienceDaily. Some of the featured stories are published after outstanding research being published in journals with high impact factor.

For more information, read the below articles from ScienceDaily:

2021 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210615132311.htm
2020 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200824105611.htm
2020 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200304141623.htm
2019 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191112130405.htm
2019 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191021135029.htm
2018 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180514185922.htm
2018 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180607141050.htm
2018 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180409103837.htm
2017 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170421103720.htm
2017 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170802134803.htm
2016 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160826110740.htm
2016 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160412160340.htm
2016 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160615102429.htm
2016 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160128082701.htm
2015 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150224083710.htm
2015 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150116085556.htm
2015 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151203150133.htm
2014 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141113141816.htm
2014 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141028082632.htm
2011 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110628132601.htm
2011 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111228134844.htm
2007 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071129121123.htm
2007 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070227105850.htm
2004 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041012094308.htm

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