Crop Improvement

Reports from the Second International Workshop on Production Technologies for Low-chill Temperate Fruits, Chiang Mai 2004.

Conventional breeding has led to the improvement of some peanut traits such as seed yield and drought tolerance

This report discusses kava myths and ceremonies, the relative importance of kava as a cash crop, the kava plant and its cultivation, and the diseases and pests commonly found in kava gardens

This technical report summarises results of a variety collection of indigenous edible nut tree crops

This publication examines the issues involved in the effective application of biotechnology in ACIAR-funded programs

This technical report emphasises the importance of efficient methods for determining price in agricultural markets and the importance of transport in developing efficient domestic and international marketing systems

High levels of mycotoxin are hazardous to human and animal health

This report is the result of a workshop held in Melbourne in March 1994, which aimed to define research and development priorities for faba beans at a regional, national and international level

ACIAR has supported two complementary studies in Thailand that have confirmed deficiencies of the micronutrients boron and molybdenum and the macronutrients phosphorus, potassium, sulfur and nitrogen in a high proportion of food legume crops

This report contains details of two ACIAR projects: an agronomic project designed to study environmental constraints to increase productivity of rainfed rice-based farming systems in the lowlands and upland areas of Sri Lanka and the Philippines and; an economic project focusing on the factors responsible for the difference between potential productivity and actual farm performance

An urgent task in the newly emerging nation of East Timor is to develop a sustainable agricultural sector

These proceedings report papers presented at the final external review of ACIAR project CS97/114 held at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India on 25-27 February 2002

This report covers research carried out in an ACIAR project to increase yields and nitrogen fixation of soybean, groundnut and mungbean in Vietnam through rhizobial inoculation

These proceedings report the outcome of an International Workshop held in Vientiane, Laos, 30 Oct to 2 Nov 2000 to coincide with the beginning of a new ACIAR project, Increased productivity of rice-based cropping systems in Lao PDR, Cambodia and Australia

These proceedings present the results of five years collaborative research involving scientists from Australia, Thailand and Lao PDR

Wheat in subtropical Asia is a potential minor crop although consistently high yields have not yet been achieved

Grain drying has taken on an important role in Asia as countries strive to produce grains for world export

In Asian countries rice is the most important staple food

(Available electronically only) This publication brings together most of the papers presented at a five day workshop held in Vanuatu in 1994

Estimates given in 1987-88 place sugar as the fourteenth most important crop in developing countries with a gross value of production of over US$7 billion

OUT OF STOCK These proceedings provide an update on progress with research on multipurpose trees in general and leucaena in particular. They include details on priorities for future research and the establishment of LEUCNET, the international network to promote leucaena research and development worldwide.

These proceedings arose from a workshop held in conjunction with the final review of the ACIAR coconut improvement project

Much of sub-Saharan Africa is semi-arid and the burgeoning population depends heavily on small-scale dryland agriculture

Contamination of stored food and feedstuffs by fungi and the mycotoxins they produce poses a serious health risk for humans and livestock and causes economic losses worldwide

OUT OF STOCK These proceedings stem from aconference held in Singapore in February 1989

OUT OF STOCK High yields from new early-maturing varieties of rice and the development of systems enabling two crops per year have created problems for the existing grain handling system in the ASEAN region

Bananas and plantain (musa spp) are one of the few tropical crops that have not been bred successfully

Significant advances in grain harvesting, drying, handling, storage and milling have occurred in the ASEAN region in the last decade

OUT OF STOCK Food legumes are grown throughout Asia for human and animal nutrition

This comprehensive book summarises new knowledge about Stylosanthes research and development