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

Research Program Manager: Mr Les Baxter email: baxter@aciar.gov.au [5] ACIAR's horticulture research program aims to improve the productivity, profitability and sustainability of fruit, vegetable and ornamental crop production in developing countries and Australia. Emphases are to improve the utility and efficiency of supply chains, optimise the quality and suitability of produce for market requirements, and minimise pre- and post-harvest losses of fruit and vegetable crops. The ACIAR horticulture program will increasingly focus on a complete supply chain approach to crop production. This approach will aim to identify and address multiple constraints to individual horticultural industry development which often arise simultaneously throughout the supply chain and can potentially reduce the impact of single issue interventions.

Newsletters

The Postharvest Technology program (a predecessor of the Horticulture program) used to produce a postharvest newsletter [6] and a mycotoxin newsletter [7] which are available online.

Relevant Publications

AR 2007-08 [8] - Annual Report 2007-08

FR2008-19a [9] - Development of an embryo culture manual and transplantation technique [Vietnamese]

FR2008-19b [10] - Development of an embryo culture manual and transplantation technique [Indonesian]

FR2008-43 [11] - Horticulture industry development for market-remote communities: Cape York and Samoa

FR2008-34 [12] - Managing trade risks arising from the use of crop protection chemicals in mangoes in the Philippines

FR2008-26 [13] - The potential for tropical fruits production in Tonga: a feasibility and constraints analysis

FR2008-27 [14] - Detection surveys for mango seed and pulp weevils in Sarangani, Davao del Sur and Samal Island, Mindanao, Philippines

FR2008-19 [15] - Development of an embryo culture manual and transplantation technique

FR2008-11 [16] - Developing the ornamentals industry in the Pacific: an opportunity for income generation

MN128 [17] - Quality management of fresh produce from the highlands of Papua New Guinea

AR 2006-07 [18] - Annual Report 2006-07

PMg Jul-Oct 07 [19] - Partners Magazine July - October 2007

AOP 2007-08 [20] - Annual Operational Plan 2007-08

MN122 [21] - Gardens of Oceania

PMg Mar-Jun07 [22] - Partners Magazine March-June 2007

CP09 [23] - Country Profiles 2006

EXT01 [24] - Master Plan for Agricultural Research Cambodia

PR125 [25] - Coconut revival: new possibilities for the 'tree of life'

PMg Winter 06 [26] - Partners Magazine Winter 2006

PMg Summer 05-06 [27] - Partners Magazine December 2005

PMg April 05 [28] - Partners Magazine April 2005

PMg December 04 [29] - Partners Magazine December 2004

CP10 [30] - Country Profiles 2005

AR 2003-04 [31] - Annual Report 2003-04

PR080 [32] - Disease Resistance in Fruit

CoP04 [33] - Suggested recommendations for the fumigation of grain in the ASEAN region

IAS50 [34] - Improved trade in mangoes from the Philippines, Thailand and Australia

CP11 [35] - Adoption of ACIAR project outputs: studies of projects completed in 2002-2003