These proceedings from a workshop of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) focus on the seed problems of multipurpose trees

ACIAR has supported a wide range of fertilizer-related projects within its plant nutrition program

The scarcity of information on spices became apparent during an ACIAR study on the economics of vanilla production

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

Proceedings from a workshop held in Honiara, Solomon Islands, in December 1989

These proceedings are the outcome of an ACIAR/ICRISAT joint planning meeting on bacterial wilt disease of groundnut (peanut), held in Malaysia in March 1990

This is a companion volume to Technical Report No 13 (a study of rainfed rice production in Antique Province, Philippines)

This report contains a description of an ACIAR supported project concerned with the postharvest transport of fresh fruit and vegetables in Papua New Guinea that has demonstrated how fresh produce can be moved from the Highlands to the main markets of Papua New Guinea and arrive in good condition

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

In the mid 1980s the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) committed itself to a program of biological control of the aquatic weed Salvinia molesta in Sri Lanka. Salvinia in Sri Lanka interferes with irrigation and drainage of rice paddies, it reduces the fish catch in water reservoirs and it also poses a health risk in providing additional breeding opportunities for mosquitoes. The agent of biological control is a Brazilian weevil called Cyrtobagous solvinioe.

Information on the vanilla industry in the South Pacific has not been readily available, so this report was prepared to fill this information gap

The focus of this study is to provide a conceptual framework in which both technological and policy choices can be evaluated in regards to the adoption of modern bulk handling methods and more efficient and effective grain-drying equipment in rice production in Malaysia.

With increasing demands for food to meet the growing population throughout Asia, increasing quantities of nitrogen fertilizer are being used, particularly urea. However, urea broadcast on rice paddies by the method commonly used by farmers can lead to the loss from 30 to 90% of the applied nitrogen. This loss represents an enormous cost to farmers, and ways need to be found to increase the uptake of nitrogen by rice.

OUT OF STOCK The estimated one billion draught animals throughout the developing world provide vital power, transport, milk, meat and security to millions of rural families

OUT OF STOCK These are the proceedings of a conference held to assess the need for economic research into increasing fisheries productivity for island nations in the South Pacific region

OUT OF STOCK These proceedings are the outcome of a workshop held under the auspices of ACIAR

These proceedings detail the findings of the ACIAR smallholder agriculture project which were presented at a workshop held in Tonga in May 1988

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