Description of the Program

The Ph.D. Program in Tropical Agriculture prepare new cohorts of highly skilled and ethical professionals at the doctoral level, trained to excel mainly, but not exclusively, in their work in tropical conditions, experts and leaders in their fields, capable of solving existing problems and generating new information and technology to expand basic and applicable knowledge related to agriculture, natural resources, and food science and technology. These new generations of thinkers, problem-solvers and innovators in the agricultural sciences should have a tremendous impact in the body of practical and basic knowledge as well as in the advancement of solutions for critical issues in food production and conservation of natural resources to sustain growing populations, situations that plague both in Puerto Rico and the rest of the planet.