Issue No 10, July 1998.

NOTICE: Hard copies of the Australian New Crops Newsletter are available from the publisher, Dr Rob Fletcher. Details of availability are included in the Advice on Publications Available.

31. Organisations and Associations Involved in the Development of New Crops

IAMA is an association of food and agribusiness industry leaders from around the world: managers of public, private and cooperative commercial organizations, educators, scientists, policy makers and others concerned that the value-added food and fibre chains should be economically efficient, responsive to nutritional and other human needs, global, and sustainable.

To address these concerns, IAMA brings business leaders from all segments of the global food and fibre chains together with the academic and scientific communities and public policy makers at its annual World Food and Agribusiness Congress.

A global and multi-functional perspective on the challenges of the food and fiber system makes IAMA programs unique.

A new journal, The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, has been initiated by IAMA and its subscription is included in the membership fees for IAMA.

For additional information, contact:

International Food and Agribusiness Management Association
Department of Agricultural Economics
Texas A&M University
College Station TX 77843-2124 USA
Telephone: 1 409 845 2118
Facsimile: 1 409 862 1487
Email: iama@tamu.edu
Membership: $US125 per annum for industry, academia, government
$US60 per annum student

This Association was founded in 1970, and comprises home gardeners, small-holders and broad acre farmers, who follow organic methods of growing crops, tending livestock and fostering sustainable agriculture.

The Association is registered under the Charitable Fundraising Act 1991.

The Association provides members with:

• monthly meetings, inspections and field days in Sydney and nearby country areas;
• a quarterly journal, 'Natural Growing';
• a seedbank of naturally grown seeds;
• a bookshop with titles available by post or at functions;
• a library; and
• advice from our advisory committee.

Are you concerned about the chemical contamination of food and the degradation of our environment by chemical based agriculture?

Would you like to produce your own fruit and vegetables using no, or minimal, synthetic chemicals?

Would you like to see farmers encouraged to use more ecologically sound methods? (The New South Wales Department of Agriculture has an alternative farming systems officer.)

Would you like to have higher quality and less contaminated food made available in shops? Our Resource Guide lists outlets and other information.

This Association is concerned about these questions and works towards improvements in each area.

Organic standards are available from:
NASAA
PO Box 768
Stirling SA 5152 or

Bio-Farm
PO Box 2577
Canberra ACT 2601

The Hawkesbury EarthCare Group
PO Box 183
Kurrajong NSW 2758

Demonstration site:
University of Western Sydney Hawkesbury
Richmond Campus

Subscription to the Association is payable from 1 January:
Fullrate: Family or Single AUD20
Students/Pensioners: AUD12

For further information contact:
Honorary Secretary
Henry Doubleday Research Association of Australia Inc
816 Comleroy Road
Kurrajong NSW 2758
Telephone: 02 4576 1220

This organisation consists of representatives from:

Chestnut Growers of Australia Ltd
P.O. Box 319
Myrtleford Vic 3737

Hazelnut Growers of Australia Ltd
GPO Box 2196T
Melbourne Vic 3001

Australian Walnut Industry Association
C/- Dr John Kenez
5 Rolls Court
Glen Waverley Vic 3150

Pistachio Growers Association Inc
PO Box 34
Paringa SA 5340

Australian Almond Growers Association Inc
PO Box 52
Berri SA 5343

Correspondence for the Australian Nut Industry Council Ltd should be addressed to:
The Secretary
PO Box 394
Yarra Glen Vic 3775
Telephone: 03 5797 8485

Grower, collector and distributor of seed and plant material of fruits, nuts, gingers, bamboos, natives, ornamentals, palms, medicinals. forestry, herbs, etc

Fruit Spirit Botanical Gardens was established in 1978 and comprises 34 hectares of fertile soil types derived from basalt or tuffaceous rhyolite. Located at 28" 30' South latitude and 153" 40' East longitude, the natural ecosystem is warm sub-tropical rainforest and wet sclerophyll Lophostemon Eucalyptus forest.

The gardens lie 25 km from the ocean receiving 1750 mm average annual rainfall. Mean minimum for the coldest month is 8.4ºC and the absolute minimum at the coldest spot is -1ºC.

An extensive Index Seminum and Materica is available of plant material for sale or exchange.

For further information please contact:
Dr Paul Recher
Fruit Spirit Botanical Gardens
Dorroughby NSW 2480
Telephone: 02 6689 5192

For further information contact:
Dr Morris Bitzer
Telephone: 1 606 257 3975
Email: mbitzer@ca.uky.edu

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

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