A charity is inviting applications for a bursary that helps Cornish agriculture students carry out research around the world

For many years the late Ken Thomas, a founder member of The Huers Farming Club, farmed at Coswarth, near Newquay. He initiated research and maintained a special interest in the encouragement and education of young people in agriculture.

In 1980 his friends and colleagues in The Huers established a Trust Fund and the trustees award bursaries to young Cornish agriculturalists, aged between 20 and 30, who might not otherwise have the means or the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and experience by travel.

The bursaries normally assist with travel costs and other expenses relating to the proposed study project and over the years numerous young people have undertaken study trips to places including New Zealand, Australia, the USA, India, Japan, Hungary, Zambia, Brazil and areas closer to home.

Recently these have included Harriet Gendall, from Falmouth, who was researching manuka, an Andean tuber crop grown in South America which could have great uses in other parts of the world, and Catherine Ede, from Callington, who took part in a National Federation of YFCs Exchange to Canada to study agriculture and the 4H movement.

You can request an application form by emailing [email protected] or by calling 01208 815562.