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Plant Production & Protection
Plant and crop production are major components of agricultural activity, and involves dealing with issues such as crop types, crop management, fertiliser use, pest management, irrigation, genetics and biodiversity, and organic crop production.This section provides resources specific to these issues, including research studies, project reports, guidelines and toolkits and databases.
Crops & crop management
- Soil biology booklet for Aceh
- Feeding Port Moresby study
- Quality management of fresh produce from the highlands of Papua New Guinea
- Global Crop Diversity Trust: a foundation for food security
- Crop diversity at risk: the case for sustaining crop collections
- International Year of Rice 2004
- ACIAR Horticulture Page
- Rice doctor: pests
- Broadacre field crops
- Crop diversification in Vietnam
- Crop diversification in Malaysia
- Big money in specialty rices
- Gardens of Oceania
- Growing trees on salt-affected land
Fertilisers
- Soils and climate gain from fertiliser's flipside
- Efficient nutrient use in rice production in Vietnam achieved using inoculant biofertilisers
- World Fertiliser Use Manual
- Managing soil amendments & fertilisers for a cleaner environment
- Fertiliser best management practices
- Soil fertility guide: common fertilisers
- Improving soil fertility the green way
Pest management & pesticides
- Jorani and the green vegetable bugs
- Pest management: the art of mimicking nature
- Material safety data sheet (MSDS) database
- Chemicals in agriculture
- Locust and other migratory pests group
- Pest, disease & weed management national modelling network
- Pest management aspects of crop rotations
- Integrated pest management & control
- Pesticide management group
- Mangosteen insect pest & disease management
- Management of rodent pests in Southeast Asia
- Guidelines for surveillance for plant pests in Asia and the Pacific (Indonesian)
Irrigation
- International Network on Participatory Irrigation Management
- The effects of agricultural irrigation on wetland ecosystems: a literature review
- Pro-poor intervention strategies in irrigated agriculture: lessons from the Asian experience
- The responsiveness of Australian farm performance to changes in irrigation water use & trade
- Growing more rice with less water
Genetics & biodiversity
Organic crops & agriculture
- Does organic agriculture lead to better health among poor farmers?
- Nanotechnology: the next challenge for organics
- The greening of China's food: green food, organic food and Eco-labelling
- Can ethical trade certification contribute to the attainment of the MDG's? A review of organic & fair-trade certification
- Whose harvest? The politics of organic seed certification
- Sector background note: organic agriculture
- Organic agriculture: a global perspective
- Organic agriculture, poverty reduction & the MDG's
- Organic farming Australia
- Handling and processing of organic fruits & vegetables in developing countries
- China's organic revolution