Treatments which extend storage life by reducing disease and delaying ripening are essential if tropical fruit are to be shipped to distant markets

SCUAF is a computer model which predicts the effects on soils of specific land use systems under given environmental conditions.

Improvements in disease control are desperately needed making the 1997 Vientiane workshop organised jointly by the Department of Livestock and Fisheries (GoL) and ACIAR, extremely timely

The objective of this workshop on disease resistance in fruit was to review recent research on non-chemical control of fruit diseases, with particular emphasis on utilisation and enhancement of constitutive or inducible host defence mechanisms.

Jembrana is a disease similar to rinderpest, and found to affect Indonesian cattle and buffalo

This technical report documents what may become something of a watershed in terms of the field investigation of soil erosion and soil conservation in biophysical terms

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

Trochus shell is highly sought after for buttons and costume jewellery

This publication presents extended abstracts of the papers presented to a workshop held in Nadi, Fiji 28-31 October 1996

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

Sustainable crop production is dependent on good nutrient management.

In most of Asia, bluetongue is an infection which has existed since cattle, buffalo and deer have been present

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

China has vast areas of arid and semi-arid pastoral land in its northern provinces

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.

Small ruminants are important to the nations of tropical and subtropical Asia and the Pacific Islands, but their productivity is severely constrained by inadequate nutrition and gastrointestinal parasites