Source: WRAL TECHWIRE, 4/25/18

Why is the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) interested in agriculture?
Blake Bextine, Ph.D., a DARPA researcher, answered that question via a phone interview at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s Crop, Animal, and Food Tech Showcase at the Cotton Room in downtown Durham. “Our food security and agriculture security are of paramount importance to the stability of our country and our economy,” he said. Bextine, an entomologist working in Arlington, Va....

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