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PROSSER, Wash.  - Bikram Adhikari is from Nepal and finds it fascinating that his robotics background may help develop a mechanical cherry harvester.

 

"This place has given me a different perspective," said Akhikari. "This is the place where people from all over the world come."

 

He's talking about Prosser — actually not even Prosser, but a remote research station about five miles northeast of Prosser, a small farming community of just 5,800 residents.

 

The long name is the Washington State University Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center, and it's known for experiments involving everything from biofuels to corn and wine grapes to weather . . . .

 

Of the 133 students, faculty members and visiting researchers involved with the research station, 84 are from other countries, according to the best count by Sharon Taff, assistant to the director. Roughly 25 nations are represented . . . .
 
IAREC director Pete Jacoby also said the international presence is because the campus recruits from all over the world. The Yakima Valley's crops are marketed worldwide so the global perspective helps.

 

"The faculty is diverse because we go after the world's best," he said.

 

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