THE QUEENSLAND PROGRAM

Photo of all participants in the 2005 Biological
Control of Tropical Weeds training workshop
held in Queensland, Australia

The Queensland Program was established in mid-1996 with generous and continuing support from the Government of Queensland, private industry, FAO and our partners. The Program places emphasis on agricultural commodities and issues that have particular relevance to the tropics. Its partners are the Queensland Departments of Primary Industries and Natural Resources, Universities - including Griffith, Queensland (St Lucia and Gatton campuses), and James Cook, CSIRO Divisions based, or with groups located in Queensland, the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, various CRCs relevant to Queensland industries, and producer organisations.

Primary targets are in fruit fly identification and control, animal production, tropical pastures and forages, tropical cropping technologies, sugar production and handling, aqua- and mari-culture, forestry and tropical horticulture and with developing interests in climate forecasting and biodiversity management.

Queensland scientists appreciate the contact with their counterparts in the region through training activities that are run as formal courses or as one-on-one training in specific techniques. Apart from opening avenues for better understanding and technology exchange, these contacts can be forerunners to stronger commercial activity between enterprises in the region.

Within Australia, the Queensland Program aims to increase cooperative actions between organisations and to forge specific links with ACIAR in order to add value to their activities which are well planned, have significant goals, continue over longer periods, and have a greater impact on the targeted agricultural systems.

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