• All Projects [1]
• Current Projects [2]
• Concluded Projects [3]
• Relevant Publications [4]

Research Program Manager: Dr Paul Fox
email: fox@aciar.gov.au [5]

The Crop Improvement and Management program targets problems of significant field (broadacre) crops which can have either genetic or agronomic solutions. The program aims to increase productivity, sustainability and utilisation of major crops and cropping systems of mutual importance to Australia and developing countries in our region. This program collaborates with ACIAR's Natural Resources programs in addressing broader system questions such as water and fertility management, tillage and crop rotation. Emphases include germplasm conservation, plant improvement, better crop management and field crop post-harvest technology.

Relevant Publications

IAS59 [6] - Two-stage grain drying in the Philippines

AR 2007-08 [7] - Annual Report 2007-08

PMg Jul-Oct 08 [8] - Partners Magazine July-October 2008

FR2008-33 [9] - Drying systems to improve grain quality in north-east India

CP10 [10] - Field crop manual: maize - a guide to upland production in Cambodia

PMg Mar-Jun 08 [11] - Partners Magazine March - June 2008

FR2008-32 [12] - Lentil and Lathyrus in the cropping systems of Nepal

FR2008-30 [13] - Improving productivity and sustainability of rainfed farming systems for the western loess plateau of Gansu province

PMg Nov 07-Feb 08 [14] - Partners Magazine November 2007 - February 2008

CP13 [15] - Country profiles 2007

AR 2006-07 [16] - Annual Report 2006-07

IAS48 [17] - Assessment of capacity building: overcoming production constraints to sorghum in rainfed environments in India and Australia

AOP 2007-08 [18] - Annual Operational Plan 2007-08

CP09 [19] - Country Profiles 2006

CoP02 [20] - Rice in Laos

EXT01 [21] - Master Plan for Agricultural Research Cambodia

PMg Winter 06 [22] - Partners Magazine Winter 2006

TR61 [23] - Production technologies for low-chill temperate fruits

PMg Summer 05-06 [24] - Partners Magazine December 2005

PMg September 04 [25] - Partners Magazine September 2004

PMg June 04 [26] - Partners Magazine June 2004

CP10 [27] - Country Profiles 2005

PR069 [28] - South Pacific Indigenous Nuts

AR 2003-04 [29] - Annual Report 2003-04

MN111 [30] - High-yielding anthracnose-resistant Stylosanthes for agricultural systems

PR113 [31] - Agriculture: New directions for a new nation East Timor (Timor-Leste)

PR112 [32] - Breeding of drought-resistant peanuts

MN101 [33] - The Coconut Odyssey: the bounteous possibilities of the tree of life

MN059 [34] - Ecologically-based Rodent Management

TR16 [35] - Mineral Nutrition of Food Legumes in Thailand

MN002 [36] - Nutritional Disorders of Grain Sorghum

TR13 [37] - Rainfed Rice Production in the Philippines: a combined agronomic/economic study of Antique Province

PR032 [38] - Forages for Plantation Crops

PR109 [39] - Inoculants and Nitrogen Fixation of Legumes in Vietnam

MN033 [40] - Illustrated Guide to the Identification of Banana Varieties in the South Pacific

PR077 [41] - Breeding Strategies for Rainfed Lowland Rice in Drought-prone Environments

PR101 [42] - Increased Lowland Rice Production in the Mekong Region

MN076 [43] - Plant Genetic Resources in the Pacific

IAP-WP11 [44] - Project development assessment: the application of plant tissue culture techniques to the propagation and breeding of tea in Indonesia

PR041 [45] - Sustainable Dryland Cropping in Semi-Arid Eastern Kenya

TR29 [46] - Research and Development Prospects for Faba Bean

MN006 [47] - Chemistry of Tropical Root Crops: Significance for nutrition and agriculture in the Pacific

TR48 [48] - Genetic Transformation, Regeneration and Analysis of Transgenic Peanut

MN083 [49] - How to Unravel and Solve Soil Fertility Problems

TR08 [50] - New Technologies for Rainfed Rice-based Farming Systems in the Philippines and Sri Lanka

TR21 [51] - Production of Pathogen-tested Sweet Potato

PR057 [52] - Leucaena - Opportunities and Limitations

PR067 [53] - Sugarcane Germplasm Conservation and Exchange

IAP-WP20 [54] - Project development assessment: pineapple quality improvement (PN9407)

TR18 [55] - Post-Flask Management of Tissue-cultured Bananas

TR17 [56] - Rice Production in Sri Lanka: a combined agronomic/economic study in the intermediate and dry zones

PR072 [57] - Sterility in Wheat in Subtropical Asia

PR018 [58] - Food Legume Improvement for Asian Farming Systems

RN26 [59] - Non-chemical Control of Rodents in Lowland Irrigated Rice Crops

PR065 [60] - Mineral Deficiencies in Root Crops

PR095 [61] - Working with Farmers: The Key to Adoption of Forage Technologies

PR070 [62] - Management of Clay Soils for Rainfed Lowland Rice-based Cropping Systems

TR44 [63] - A Variety Collection of Edible Nut Tree Crops in Solomon Islands

TR36 [64] - A Guide to the Zygotic Embryo Culture of Coconut Palms (Cocos nucifera L.)

MN048 [65] - Nutrient Disorders of Sweet Potato

TR46 [66] - Kava (Piper methysticum) in the South Pacific

IAS50 [67] - Improved trade in mangoes from the Philippines, Thailand and Australia