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Advice on Publications Available.Rob Fletcher and Gerry Kregor, Editors
This is the eleventh issue of the Australian New Crops Newsletter and the second for which a subscription has been charged.
We thank those who have subscribed so far and invite you to re-subscribe for Issues 12 (July 1999) and 13 (January 2000), to cost AUD30 for the financial year.
We are grateful to the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation for their continuing support for the next year.
After Issue 13, the newsletter needs to be self-supporting from subscriptions, if it is to continue.
The newsletter has been registered with Australia Post as a periodical and this Issue is the first to be directly type-set by the Editors, to minimise costs.
The current Editors do not receive any personal recompense.
Thanks to those who responded to the survey about the content of Issues 9 and 10 of the newsletter.
Results have been collated on Pages 24-27, including a list of topics that readers would like to see addressed.
We are currently moving to introduce as many of the more frequently recommended changes as possible.
Only a couple of readers commented negatively on the size of the newsletter.
Many others were positive in terms of the scope, the range and the availability of the information provided.
To respond, we have taken the view that anything of interest to our readers warrants inclusion in the newsletter. We believe that limiting the content wll unnecessarily bias the newsletter.
On the other hand, we do omit material that serves no obviously useful educational purpose. On the fringes of new crop commercialisation, there is much material in this vein, particularly on the Internet.
In response to your encouragement about crop profiles, this issue reports to varying extents on stevia (the sweetener), ramie, pitaya, Acacias, cat's whiskers, chamomile, ginseng, hemp, olives and vegetable amaranth.
In the report from the Emerging Opportunities in Agriculture Information Day at Tamworth, there are further reports on pulses, navy, adzuki and faba beans, essential oils, farm forestry, paulownia and lentils, as well as other more general reports.
In this Issue, The New Rural Industries 1998 conference in Perth has been reported upon, by the organisers. We would be interested in any other feedback from the conference.
Dr David McKinna's excellent presentation from the conference has been reprinted, with kind permission of the organisers and Dr McKinna.
RIRDC Australian native food research is also reported in this Issue.
The developer profile focusses on Chrisopher Dean, the Chairman of Thursday Plantations Laboratories Ltd at Ballina on the North Coast of New South Wales and his work encouraging the development of tea tree.
Back issues are constantly being requested and Issues 1,2 and 5 have been exhausted. Therefore, the first ten issues of the Australian New Crops Newsletter, complete with a comprehensive index, is available in a single volume of over 350 pages. Separate copies of the index are also available for AUD15, postage included.
Details of these publications and others from the New Crops Program are included on the last page of this Issue.
We would like to thank all contributors to this issue. As previously, we appreciate contributions from any new crops workers and will continue to seek out information which has potential benefit for those attempting to commercialise new crops.
In this issue, as previously, we have used material from a wide range of sources. We thank all those who have given us permission to reproduce material originally published elsewhere. If we have accidentally overlooked this courtesy in your case, we apologise.
Any claims made by authors in the Australian New Crops Newsletter are presented by the Editors in good faith. Readers would be wise to critically examine the circumstances associated with any claims to determine the applicability of such claims to their specific set of circumstances. This material can be reproduced, with the provision that the source and the author (or editors, if applicable) are acknowledged and the use is for information or educational purposes. Contact with the original author is probably wise since the material may require updating or amendment if used in other publications. Material sourced from the Australian New Crops Newsletter cannot be used out of context or for commercial purposes not related to its original purpose in the newsletter
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:
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