SPC agricultural news : newsletter of the South Pacific Commission Food and Materials Programme

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Sq 630.995 SPC
Created/Published
Suva, Fiji : The Programme, 1992-
Issue
Vol. 6 No. 1 (August 1997)
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Contents

SPC Agricultural News 1
Regional working group on intellectual property rights addresses a difficult but necessary task 1 , 3
From the Programme Manager’s Desk 2
Open Day 1997 AGRICULTURAL CORNER 3
Kava Meeting 4
Gender Training Project Plans for 1997 4
Teaching Agriculture at CETC 4
ADAP Review 5
IIRR & Greenhouse Vegetable Production, Cavite 5
Dr Purea joins SAPA 6
FAO Ministers of Agriculture meet in Apia 6
COCONUT CORNER 6
COGENT NEWS 6
BUROTROP NEWS 7
FHIA lines perform well at Koronivia INIBAP/ASPNET NEWS 7
Banana evaluations planned for FSM 7
LIVESTOCK NEWS FAO/SPC Animal Health Information Systems Project begins 8
Library receives gift of books on animal health 8
Disaster Mitigation in Agriculture 8
Plant Protection Workshops – 1997 FOCUS ON PLANT PROTECTION 9
Quarantine Awareness 9
Status of EU/SPC PPS Project 9
Safe Use of Pesticides: Workshop in Tonga 10
Regional Tissue Culture Workshop 10
New Regional Project Started FOCUS ON FRUIT FLY 11
Taro Beetle Project News 11 , 12
PLANT PROTECTION IN MICRONESIA NEWS 12 , 13
IPM Activities in Central Division, Fiji 15
New Masters in Plant Protection 15
Bioagent for GSP weed in Niue SPC-GERMAN BIOCONTROL PROJECT NEWS 15
Preparation of IPM Extension Materials in Pidgin 15
Further Assignments of GDS Workers 15
INFORMATION SERVICES Recent SPC Publications 16
PPPO NEWS Funding from APHIS 16
Coconut virus/ viroid meeting 16
PPPO Executive to meet 16
Livestock Waste Management Survey in the American Pacific ADAP NEWS 17
PRAP NEWS International Workshop on Improved Seed Supply Strategies for Pacific Island Countries 18
Seed News 18
Forestry-SPC / PGRFP 19
American Samoa Good Progress on Taro Blight Control COUNTRY PROFILES 19
American Samoa Dr Muniappan on Consultancy to ASCC 20
Northern Mariana Islands Successful Cabbage Pest Control 20
Brontispa Damage Severe 20
Federated States of Micronesia Kava Cultivation Effects 20
Yam Multiplication 20
Fiji Arbor and Environment Weeks Celebrations 21
Taro Beetle Campaign 21
Giant African Snail Threat 21
Commodity Development Framework 22
New Caledonia Council of Chiefs Interested in Yam Connection with Culture 23
Calvez Departs 23
Guam Interest in Agriculture Imports 23
Pasture Meeting-Forage Production and Mine-Site Rehabilitation 23
Papua New Guinea NARI Developments 24
Vanuatu Kava Interests 24
Western Samoa Coconut Caramel a Hit 25
Taro and Banana Concerns 25
Giant African Snail Update 25
Acronyms 26

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South Pacific Commission. Food and Materials Programme and South Pacific Commission. Agriculture Programme. SPC agricultural news : newsletter of the South Pacific Commission Food and Materials Programme Suva, Fiji: The Programme, 1992. Web. 11 September 2026 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3561940372>

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South Pacific Commission. Food and Materials Programme & South Pacific Commission. Agriculture Programme. 1992, SPC agricultural news : newsletter of the South Pacific Commission Food and Materials Programme The Programme, Suva, Fiji viewed 11 September 2026 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3561940372

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