Issue No 5, January 1996.

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.

14. New Crop Publications

Proceedings of First Australian Sesame Workshop

The First Australian Sesame Workshop was held at Darwin and Katherine in the Northern Territory from 21-23 March 1995. Twenty three invited papers were presented at the formal sessions held in Darwin during the first 11/2 days of the Workshop.

The third day was spent at Katherine, the main Centre for the sesame research program being undertaken by the Northern Territory Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries. During the last session of the Workshop participants joined in group discussions on the topic of developing strategies for a coordinated approach to the expansion of the Australian sesame industry.

The participants also took part in a survey in which they nominated in priority order what they saw as the five major issues which needed to be addressed to ensure expansion of the Australian sesame industry.

The Proceedings contains the 23 papers presented at the Workshop as well as an overview chapter which includes the results of the survey in which participants nominated the issues that they saw as crucial to the future development of the Australian sesame industry.

Follow-up action since the Workshop has included submission of a report on the Workshop to the Rural Industry Research and Development Corporation and the Grains Research and Development Corporation which jointly funded the Workshop. These two organisations have since funded the development of a strategic plan for the sesame industry for the period to 2005 based on the recommendations arising from the Workshop.

Copies of the Proceedings are available from:

Mr Malcolm Bennett
Department of Primary Industry & Fisheries
PO Box 1346
Katherine NT 0851
Telephone: (089) 739 733
Facsimile: (089) 739 777
International Telephone: +61 89 739 733
Price: $20 (postage included within Australia)

Fruit and Vegetable Prices and Receivals 1994-95: Flemington Markets Sydney Australia

By Tony Moody, Karen Tilley and Tania Selig
ISBN 1038-9296
Published by NSW Agriculture
Flemington Market Reporting Service
179 pp September 1995

This publication is the fourth edition of annual fruit and vegetable trading at the Flemington market in Sydney, NSW. Published by the Flemington Market Reporting Service, a unit within NSW Agriculture, the publication gives monthly statistics for the prices, intakes and origin of 15 fruit crops: (apples, avocadoes, bananas, cherries, grapes, lemons and grapefruit, mandarins, mangoes, melons, oranges, pawpaws and pineapples, peaches and nectarines); and 14 vegetable crops (asparagus, beans and peas, broccoli and cauliflower, capsicum, carrots and celery, cucumbers, lettuce, potatoes, tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant).

Also included in this edition are articles on The Drought: effect on fruit and vegetable supplies, Imports of Fruit and Vegetables and Exotic and Asian Produce.

Available from:
Flemington Market Reporting Service
NSW Agriculture
PO Box 139
Flemington Markets NSW 2129
Price: $30

Opportunities in Australian Agriculture: A Research Report on Agricultural Innovators

Edited by David Thompson

ISBN 1-86389-256-7
Published by the Centre for Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of New England
Armidale, NSW 2351

This book chronicles the experiences of forty successful agricultural innovators, ranging from small family farms to producer cooperatives and multinational corporations.

Each case study is presented separately, with an index of key subject topics to assist the reader in finding information of particular interest.

A summary is provided of the key features in developing a successful business (after investigating principles under headings such as getting started, innovation, marketing, financing options, government role, obstacles and solutions).

A step-by-step guide is given to identify a new business idea and to get it underway, including how to undertake a feasibility study and how to prepare a business plan.

Available from:

Centre for Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of New England
Armidale, NSW 2351
Telephone: (067) 733 546
Facsimile: (067) 733 944
International Telephone: +61 67 733 546
Email: UNECARE@UNE.edu.au
Price: $AUS25 (including postage).

Rainforest Remedies: One Hundred Healing Herbs of Belize

By R. Arvigo and M. Balick

ISBN 0-914955-13-6
Published by Lotus Press
WI 53181, USA

The diversity and mystery of the world's tropical rainforests-and the dangers facing them- have captured the attention of people throughout the world. The traditional peoples and cultures who inhabit these ecosystems are disappearing ever more rapidly than the flora and fauna of the forests. With their loss, we are losing incalculable stores of traditional knowledge about plants that has been developed by these cultures over centuries. The authors of this book have dedicated themselves to the preservation and continued use of this traditional knowledge and the rainforest from which it comes.

Available from the publisher:

Lotus Press, PO Box 325
Twin Lakes, WI 53181, USA
Telephone: +1 414 889 8561
Facsimile: +1 414 889 8591
Price: $US9.95 plus $US1.50 postage within the US.

Farming Alternatives: A Guide to Evaluating the Feasibility of New Farm-Based Enterprises.

This workbook is a step-by-step aid to planning and evaluating a new enterprise. It includes chapters on setting goals, assessing markets, production and financial feasibility. [This publication was mentioned in Bio-Options, The Newsletter of the Centre for Alternative Plant and Animal Products, University of Minnesota, MN, USA 6(3): 15].

Available from:

Resource Centre, Cornell University
7 Business and Technology Park
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
Price: $US8 [Overseas mailing extra]

Basic Crop Fact Sheets

Published by the New Zealand Tree Crops Association, Inc

A series of 'fact sheets' prepared by the Association for the use of members interested in these tree crops in New Zealand. No warranty is given on the 'fact sheets'.

Tree crops presented include: almond, avocado, Capulin cherry, carob, casimiroa, catalpa, cherimoya, chestnut, feijoa, hazelnut, honey locust, loquat, macadamia, olive, paulownia, pecan, persimmon, pine nut, pistachio, tagasaste, tamarillo, walnut, willow etc.

Practical information, for New Zealand, is included, such as environmental influences for each crop, production considerations, pests and diseases, varieties, some economic and marketing information etc.

Authors of the 'fact sheets' and/or sources of the information are given so they can be contacted.

For further information on this publication, (and for information on other publications of the New Zealand Tree Crops Association, and certain publications of the New Zealand Forest Research Institute, relevant to tree cropping) contact:

Publications, New Zealand Tree Crops Association, Inc
PO Box 664,
Tokoroa, New Zealand
Telephone: +64 7 886 9870
Facsimile: +64 7 886 7742
Price $NZ21 (August 1995)

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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