Section 2 - Sugar Research and Development Corporation

Group Capacity Building Projects (CBPs) completed during 2010–2011
Project
number
Researcher and Organisation Project
WS015 NRM facilitators & strategists
in association with
AGEconPlus Consulting
BSS038 BSES: Joanne Stringer, Emily
Deomano, Barry Croft, Robert
Magarey, Shamsul Bhuiyan
Peter Samson, Nader Sallam,
Keith Chandler, Xiangming
Xu, East Malling Research,
Kent, UK
QUT042 Geoff Kent and Floren Plaza,
Queensland University of
Technology and materials
expert Jeff Gates, University
of Queensland (organisers)
PAA001 SPAA Precision Agriculture
Association
PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT
A workshop of senior members of the sugarcane industry
held in Brisbane on 25 June 2010 to further identify
research, development and extension priorities.
To discuss statistical issues and develop recommendations
for improved analyses in the pest, weed management and
disease selection programs with Dr Xiangming Xu, a world
expert in epidemiology and biometrics from East Malling
Research in Kent.
Materials workshop for Australian sugar factory engineers
held in Mackay.
Provided the opportunity for seven cane growers to attend
the 14th Precision Agriculture Symposium.
CBP007 Attended the National Farmers Federation 2010 Congress
in Melbourne as young grower representatives.
CPB009 Phillip Jackson, Prakash
Lakshmanan, Geoff Inman-
Bamber, Fengduo Hu
To travel to China to develop mutually benefi cial
collaborations between sugarcane research institutes
in China and Australia in the area of breeding sugarcane
for water stress.
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