Alo Mohan
Thinking Different - Encouraging the Transfer of Knowledge in the Poultry Sector
Biography
Alo Mohan, married to Yvonne with three sons, is from Redhills in Co Cavan was awarded the FBD Trust Nuffield Scholarship for 2013. Alo’s study topic was “Thinking Different – Encouraging the Transfer of Knowledge in the Poultry Sector”. Alo’s farm consists of a 140,000 broiler poultry unit, raising 7.5 crops/year; a beef farm with some sheep. At present he does over a million chickens a year on one unit. On that unit he is studying the effects of removing CO2 from housing through indirect heating. Alo’s aim is to have greater farmer involvement in research and policy decisions which he believes is an untapped resource. He hopes to gain knowledge and ideas from other countries so as to implement affordable research and development in smaller countries like Ireland which do not have researc
Nuffield Study
Thinking Different - Encouraging the Transfer of Knowledge in the Poultry Sector
Alo Mohan, married to Yvonne with three sons, is from Redhills in Co Cavan was awarded the FBD Trust Nuffield Scholarship for 2013. Alo’s study topic was “Thinking Different – Encouraging the Transfer of Knowledge in the Poultry Sector”. Alo’s farm consists of a 140,000 broiler poultry unit, raising 7.5 crops/year; a beef farm with some sheep. At present he does over a million chickens a year on one unit. On that unit he is studying the effects of removing CO2 from housing through indirect heati
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Year
2013 Scholar
Location
Co. Cavan
Sector
Beef
Education
Farm Enterprise
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