The Sixth Conference of the Australasian Council on Tree and Nut Crops (ACOTANC)

Held at Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, 11-15 September 1995

This electronic version of the proceedings is available from: http://www.laf.uq.edu.au/staff/rfletcher/acotanc/acotanc.htm

Disclaimer: This is not the official proceedings of ACOTANC-95 but it is the only record of that conference.

Due to financial difficulties within ACOTANC, the New Crops Project at the University of Queensland, Gatton, has made the papers publicly available solely in the interests of the information contained in them.

Some papers have required extensive "ghost writing" and editing but on the whole the papers have been spell-checked, re-formatted and markedup to HTML, they have not been closely proof-read. Errors may be those of the original author or, despite the best care, may have been introduced in the scanning or file conversion process. The editor accepts no responsibility for any errors. If you require clarification of any issues raised in the papers, please contact the original author.

This page has been accessed times since 8 August 1996.

Table of Contents

Key note presentations

  1. Land Degradation: the insidious disease that threatens nations - Brian Scarsbrick
  2. Practical aspects of export marketing. - Damian Fisher
  3. Horticulture and Tourism. - Ian Oelrichs & Petrina Doyle
  4. Wild and rare fruit trees as new crops for desert areas. - Yosef Mizrahi
  5. Fruit and nut crops in the former USSR - Leonid Burmistrov
  6. Plant Breeding in vegetatively progagated tree crops - Henry Bell
  7. Genetic engineering: opportunities for tree and nut crops in the future. - Steele Scott

New Crop Potential. - Production and marketing

  1. Choosing New Crops - Rob Fletcher et. al.
  2. Selecting New Crops using Strategic Market Management - Chai McConnell
  3. Domesticating fruit and nuts: Indigenous tucker. - Peter Hardwick
  4. New Crops and Wild Fruit and Nuts in the USSR. - Leonid Burmistov
  5. Diversifying into Bushfoods. - Dave Forest
  6. Cacti as Horticultural Crops. - Yosef Mizrahi
  7. Coffee: a Growing New Industry. - John Zentveld
  8. Opportunities for Farm Forestry. - Ross Garsden & Robert Dyason
  9. Kiri: a new timber tree crop for commercial forestry. - Alex Jay
  10. The potential for non-timber forest products of Botswana. - FW Taylor & NT Parratt

Recent Innovations in the Fruit and Nut Crop Industry

  1. Recent Innovations in the Macadamia Industry. - Andy Stapleton
  2. The Australian Avocado Industry AVOMAN. - Quality. - Database. - Warren Meredith
  3. Winter Chill: Apples and Pears for Warmer Districts. - Jill Campbell
  4. Developments in the New Zealand Fruit Industry. - Ron Becroft
  5. The Australian Non-astringent Persimmon Industry - Ray Collins
  6. Biofungicides: A New Environmentally Friendly Pest Control. - Anna Williamson
  7. Application of Biotechnology to Fruit and Nut Species - Rod Drew
  8. The Internet: Value to Fruit and Nut Production - Geoff Hill

Environmental Sustainability of Fruit and Nut Crops

  1. Planning, establishing and maintaining sustainable tree crops on the NSW north coast. - Bruce Hungerford
  2. Integrated Pest Management. - Alan Coates
  3. Importance of conserving biodiversity in fruit and nut crops. - Jude Fanton
  4. Fodder for thought. - Ibrahim Champion
  5. The organic certification system: a thumbnail sketch. - Tony Ulmann
  6. Are Permaculture Fruit Forests a Sustainable Commercial Option? - Graham Brookman
  7. Windbreak trees for Economic Biodiversity - Peter Stace
  8. Farming for the Furtue: Sustainability and Whole Farm Planning - Simon Proust
  9. Education for Sustainable Horticulture - Ken Keith
  10. Sustainability without Spirituality - Impossible? - Paul Recher
  11. Changes in management practices for flying foxes in eastern Australia - Peggy Ebby

Marketing of Fruit and Nut Crops

  1. The profitability of growing Macadamias in NSW - Tim Reilly
  2. Organic Marketing in the Future - Alan Roberts
  3. The Normal Approach when Marketing in South East Asia - Don Mitchell
  4. Furtue Directions in Marketing: Supermarkets. - Greg Dhnaram
  5. The Role of the Central Market. - Graeme Ratford
  6. Pros and Cons of Value-adding as a Marketing Strategy. - Art Beavis
  7. Opportunities for Marketing through Secondary Processing - Luke Maunder
  8. Three New Crops with proven Niche Market Potential - Roger Meyer

Increasing Productivity

  1. Groundcovers in Macadamia orchards. - Daryl Firth
  2. Orchard Design for Optimising Yield and Quality of Macadamia - N. Meyers et al.
  3. Factors controlling yield in Macadamia. - Susan O'Brien & Cameron McConchie
  4. Use of molecular markers in Crop improvement of macadamia. - V. Vithnage et al.
  5. Regulation of Flowering in Lychee and Mango - Cameron McConchie
  6. Flowering date affects hand pollination of Cherimoya. - AC Richardson & PA Anderson
  7. The Bird's Message: rethinking Tree Crop Nutrition - David Noel
  8. The Florigen concept; its applicability to fruit and nut trees. - Vinod Kulkarni
  9. New Production System for Apples - Jill Campbell
  10. Pests Attacking Macadamia in South Africa - M.A. van den Berg
  11. Irrigation: Just Producing or after Added Potential - Graeme Robertson
  12. Pecan orchard management in the Western Region of the USA. - Esteban Herrera
  13. Pollination Strategy in the Cherimola - C.A. Schroeder
  14. Biological Control of the Yellow Pecan Aphid, Monelliopsis pecanis (Hym.: Aphididae) in South Africa - M.A. van den Berg

Contact: Dr Rob Fletcher, School of Land and Food, The University of Queensland Gatton College, 4345; Telephone: 07 5460 1311 or 07 5460 1301; Facsimile: 07 5460 1112; International facsimile: 61 7 5460 1112; Email: r.fletcher@mailbox.uq.edu.au

[New Crops Home Page] [New Crops Program] [Australian New Crops Newsletter] [New Crops Publications] [Order Form] [People] [Crop Profiles] [Other Resources]

originally created by: GK; latest update 6 June 1999 by: RF