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Advice on Publications Available.Lavender Bombala-95
Conference on the lavender industry: Production, Processing and Marketing.
Bombala, NSW, Australia
2-3 September 1995
Speakers include Tim Denny, Rosemary Holmes, Judyth McLeod, Professor Martin Wade, John Mercer, Dr Brian Stynes.
For further information contact:
Monaro Country Lavender
PO Box 215
Bombala NSW 2632
or
Jo Walcott
Phone/facsimile: 02 6458 7203
or
Jude Grant
Phone: 02 6458 3639
Facsimile: 02 6458 3429
ACOTANC-95
The Sixth Conference of the Australasian Council on Tree and Nut Crops
Lismore NSW Australia
11-15 September 1995
This Conference has the theme 'Successful Horticulture for the Future: Marketing, Innovation, Integration and Sustainability'. Topics range from new approaches to conventional perennial-plant crops, through exploitation of new and previously neglected crops, right up to more searching social factors, such as sustainability and environmental impact of different horticultural approaches. In addition to fruit and nut trees, the Conference will cover perennials and shrubs, tree symbionts, timber and tree crop processing. The Conference will be held in Lismore, northern New South Wales, in the heart of Australia's principal subtropical fruit and nut production region.
Program information and registration forms are available from:
Conference Secretary,
ACOTANC-95
PO Box 7091
Lismore Heights NSW 2480
Telephone: 02 6624 3211
Facsimile: 02 6624 1007
Third National New Crops Symposium
Indianapolis, Indiana USA
22-25 October 1995
The Third National Symposium on 'New Crops: New Uses, New Technologies New Crops' will be held from 22-25 October 1995 at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana This is the largest and most informative symposium on new crops held in North America. The objectives of the symposium are threefold: (1) to identify promising new crops and plant products and update new crops research, development and technology; (2) to encourage new directions in national and state new crop policies; and (3) to develop strategies for commercialisation.
The Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops will hold its technical session on October 22, prior to the start of the Symposium.
There is a WWW site for information on the conference: http://newcrop.hort.purdue.edu/
For further information contact:
Jules Janick,Third European Symposium on Industrial Crops and Products
Reims France
November 1995
This symposium will address aspects such as agronomy, breeding, policy and economics, agro-technology, industrial processing and utilisation and environmental impact as they relate to existing and new potential industrial crops such as oil and fibre crops, crops for production of carbohydrates or pharmaceuticals and crops producing other special compounds for industrial application.
The symposium will consist of invited and selected submitted papers in plenary and parallel sessions.
Industrial crops to be included are:
Parallel sessions will consist of contributed papers discussing policy, economics, marketing, cultivation and breeding, processing and products in the field of oils, carbohydrates, fibres and proteins for special industrial markets as well as products based on the above renewable resources (such as polymers, inks, glues, coatings, lubricants, fibres for reinforcement, foams and biofuels).
For further information contact:
International Neem Conference
The University of Queensland Gatton College
Lawes, Queensland, Australia
4-9 February 1996
The International Neem Conference will be held at The University of Queensland Gatton College over five days from 4-9 February 1996. Gatton College is situated about 90 km from Brisbane and has full residential facilities.
The program includes plenary sessions, symposia, regular sessions, poster sessions and general and scientific excursions. The Conference scientific program will be arranged in sessions to accommodate the following topics: general; entomology and integrated pest management; pathology, insect physiology and chemistry; botany; other botanicals; neem in sustainable agriculture, medicine and public health; toxicology/registration; agronomy and other themes.
For further information contact:
Dr Errol Hassan
Vice President of the Organising Committee
Department of Plant Production
The University of Queensland Gatton College
Lawes 4343 Queensland Australia
Eighth International Lupin Conference
Asilomar Center near Monterey, California USA
May 11-16 1996
This conference is being organised by the International Lupin Association (ILA) and is co-sponsored by the Department of Agronomy and Range Science at the University of California, Davis and the North American Lupin Association. The ILA was founded in 1980 and meets every three years in a different country. This is the first time that it has been held in the USA. The scientists convening at Asilomar in 1996 will report on a number of topics that will be of interest to both scientists and growers. These include new crop development, human and animal food uses, nitrogen fixation, ecological importance and agronomic aspects of lupin.
For further information contact:
Conference and Event Services (Lupin)
University of California Davis, CA 95616-8766 USA
Telephone: 1 916 757 3331
Facsimile: 1 916 757 7943
Email: jcbarnes@ucdavis.edu
Domestication, Production and Utilization of New Crops: Practical Approaches
University of Southampton, UK
8-10 July, 1996
This is the Third International Conference organised by the International Centre for Underutilized Crops (ICUC), University of Southampton, UK. Recent years have seen rapidly growing interest in developing novel crops, and new uses for existing or underutilized crops. The concern among scientists, agriculturalists and industrialists in the developed world is driven by the need both to find viable uses for land no longer needed for food production, and to find alternative renewable sources of raw materials. In less developed countries, accelerating population growth and the need for sustainable development make it necessary constantly to raise productivity and improve nutrition through diversification of crops and better exploitation of underutilized plants.
Previous international conferences organised by the ICUC have been titled 'New Crops for Food and Industry' (1987) and 'New Crops for Europe' (1991). the objective of the Third Conference is to highlight obstacles in the process of new crop development, and determine, from practical experience, how to overcome them. The aim will be to extract general principles, and thus provide a practical basis to aid future work. The conference program will include the following sessions: Why do we need new crops? (As alternative sources for food, industrial and medicinal materials; For their implications for farming systems); Sources of new crops (Domestication of new crops; Revival of old crops; Enhancement of existing crops); Mechanics of crop development (Improvement strategies; Genetic enhancement; Agronomy; Pests and diseases; Environmental impacts; Mechanisation); Utilisation and marketing (Post-harvest handling; Processing; Products for markets; Products for subsistence; Economic barriers and opportunities; Regulations: quality and composition).
Further information can be obtained by replying to:
The Society for Economic Botany and the International Society for Ethnopharmacology will be holding a five-day Conference in London on 'Plants for Food and Medicine' immediately before this Conference (1-6 July 1996).
First Australian New Crops Conference
The University of Queensland Gatton College, Queensland Australia
9-11 July 1996
The First Australian New Crops Conference will be held at The University of Queensland, Gatton College over 3 days from 9-11 July 1996. Gatton College is situated about 80 km from Brisbane and has full residential facilities. This national Conference is being organised by The University of Queensland, The CSIRO Division of Tropical Crops and Pastures, The Department of Primary Industry Queensland and NSW Agriculture in collaboration with State, Federal and Territory Departments of Agriculture and commercial organisations.
The theme of the Conference is 'New Crops, New Products: New Opportunities for Australian Agriculture'. The objectives of the Conference will be: (1) to review new crops work in Australia; (2) to foster cooperation in new crops research and development for mutual benefit; (3) to identify new commercial initiatives in new crops research and development in Australia; (4) to develop policy for new crops research and development; (5) to consider the establishment of an Australian New Crops Research and Development Association (ANCRADA); and (6) to consider the establishment of an Australian Journal of New Crops Research and Development.
The program will comprise plenary sessions on current and past policy considerations in new crop development (national and international); economics and marketing; commercialisation; production; processing; extension; and information systems. Concurrent sessions will be run with contributions on individual crops in the groups cereals and pseudocereals; grain legumes; oilseeds; industrial crops; fibre crops; fruits and nuts; vegetables; floral, landscape and landcare plants; and aromatic, spice, medicinal and bioactive crops.
Workshops will be held on specific crop groups and new crop developments in specific regional areas, according to the wishes of the participants, as indicated in the responses to the Call for Papers and Expression of Interest. The final plenary sessions will include summaries of the workshops; will consider future policy considerations in new crop development; and investigate a systems approach to future new crop development. A Conference Proceedings will be published.
Expressions of interest are being sought from those interested in attending, in presenting a paper or poster, or in attending a workshop.
For further information contact:
Sally Brown
Conference Secretariat
Continuing Education
The University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072 Australia
Telephone: 07 3365 6360
Facsimile: 07 3365 7099
International. Telephone: 61 7 3365 6360
International Facsimile: 61 7 3365 7099
Email: Sally@ceu.uq.oz.au
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