PGR News from the Pacific

A blog maintained by Tevita Kete, PGR Officer

Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Suva, Fiji Islands

This weblog documents the activities of Pacific Agricultural Genetic Resources Network (PAPGREN), along with other information on plant genetic resources (PGR) in the Pacific.

The myriad varieties found within cultivated plants are fundamental to the present and future productivity of agriculture. PAPGREN, which is coordinated by the Land Resources Division of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), helps Pacific countries and territories to conserve their crop genetic diversity sustainably, with technical assistance from the Bioversity International (BI) and support from NZAID and ACIAR.

SPC also hosts the Centre of Pacific Crops and Trees (CEPaCT). The CEPaCT maintains regional in vitro collections of crops important to the Pacific and carries out research on tissue culture technology. The CEPaCT Adviser is Dr Mary Taylor (MaryT@spc.int), the CEPaCT Curator is Ms Valerie Tuia (ValerieT@spc.int).

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PAPGREN coordination and support

CEPaCT

Click on the thumbnail to see a map of the locations of Pacific genebanks. Click here to download a regional directory of genebanks in the Pacific, including information on their location, contact details and holdings.

PAPGREN partners

Mr William Wigmore
Director of Research
Ministry of Agriculture
Department of Resources & Development
P.O. Box 96
Rarotonga
Cook Islands
Tel: (682) 28711-29720
Fax: (682) 21881
Email: cimoa@oyster.net.ck

Mr Adelino S. Lorens
Chief
Agriculture Pohnpei
Office of Economic Affairs
P.O. Box 1028
Kolonia
Pohnpei 96941
Federated States of Micronesia
Tel: (691) 3202400
Fax: (691) 3202127
Email: pniagriculture@mail.fm

Dr Lois Englberger
Island Food Community of Pohnpei
Research Advisor
P.O. Box 2299
Kolonia
Pohnpei 96941
Federated States of Micronesia
Email: nutrition@mail.fm

Mr Apisai Ucuboi
Director of Research
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forest
Koronivia Research Station
P.O. Box 77
Nausori
Fiji Islands
Tel: (679) 3477044
Fax: (679) 3477546-400262
Email: apisainu@yahoo.com

Dr Maurice Wong
Service du Developpement Rural
B.P. 100
Papeete
Tahiti 98713
French Polynesia
Tel: (689) 42 81 44
Fax: (689) 42 08 31
Email: maurice.wong@rural.gov.pf

Mr Tianeti Beenna Ioane
Head, Research Section
Division of Agriculture
Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development
P.O. Box 267
Tarawa
Kiribati
Tel: (686) 28096-28108-28080
Fax: (686) 28121
Email : agriculture@tskl.net.ki; Beenna_ti@yahoo.com

Mr Frederick Muller
Secretary
Ministry of Resources & Development
P.O. Box 1727
Majuro 96960
Marshall Islands
Tel: (692) 6253206
Fax: (692) 6257471
Email: rndsec@ntamar.net

Mr Herman Francisco
Director
Bureau of Agriculture
Ministry of Resources & Development
P.O. Box 460
Koror 96940
Palau
Tel: (680) 4881517
Fax: (680) 4881725
Email: bnrd@pnccwg.palaunet.com

Ms Rosa Kambuou
Principal Scientist PGR
NARI Dry Lowlands Programme
Laloki Agricultural Research Station
P.O. Box 1828
Boroko
National Capital District
Papua New Guinea
Tel: (675) 3235511
Fax: (675) 3234733
Email: kambuou@global.net.pg

Ms Laisene Samuelu
Principal Crop Development Officer
Crops Division
Ministry of Agriculture, Forests, Fisheries & Meteorology
P.O. Box 1874
Apia
Samoa
Tel: (685) 23416-20605
Fax: (685) 20607-23996
Email: lsamuelu@lesamoa.net

Mr Jimi Saelea
Director of Research
Department of Agriculture and Livestock
P.O. Box G13
Honiara
Guadalcanal
Solomon Islands
Tel: (677) 27987

Mr Tony Jansen
Planting Materials Network
Kastom Gaden Association
Burns Creek, Honiara
P.O. Box 742
Honiara
Solomon Islands
Tel: (677) 39551
Email: kastomgaden@solomon.com.sb

Mr Finao Pole
Head of Research
Ministry of Agriculture & Forests
P.O. Box 14
Nuku'alofa
Tonga
Tel: (676) 23038
Fax: (676) 24271
Email: thaangana@hotmail.com

Mr Frazer Bule Lehi
Head of Research
Department of Agriculture & Rural Development
Private Mail Bag 040
Port Vila
Vanuatu
Tel: (678) 22525
Fax: (678) 25265
Email: flehi@hotmail.com

Other links

Other CROP agencies
Forum Secretariat
University of the South Pacific
SPREP

Pacific biodiversity
Biodiversity hotspots
Breadfruit Institute
Hawaiian native plants
Intellectual property rights
Nature Conservancy
PBIF
PestNet
SIDS
WWF South Pacific Program

Other Pacific organizations
Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific
Micronesian Seminar
Te Puna web directory

Pacific news
Cafe Pacific
CocoNET Wireless
Island Directory
Pacific Islands News
Pacific Islands Report
Pacific Islands Travel
Pacific Time
South Pacific travel
Time Pacific

Interested in GIS?
DIVA-GIS

Thursday, September 08, 2005

Posted 9:01 PM by Luigi

More Pacific mapping

Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/) has a function for perspective views which can be quite useful. In the attached, I’ve draped an image of areas where taro (red) or banana (blue) is the dominant staple from the (PNG Farming Systems Database) over a view of northern PNG looking SE from a height of about 36 miles.

* Comments:

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Posted 2:22 PM by Luigi

Solomon Islands agriculture

The Solomon Islands government is pinning its hopes on a new agriculture strategy to help drive the economy back into the black. A five-year plan, developed by stakeholders in the newly formed Agriculture Council, targets the rural sector as a major player in its so-called 'Rural Livelihood Plan'. The 'Agriculture Sector Strategies Plan 2005 and Beyond' aims to help individual farmers achieve product quality standards, productivity and management levels.
Speakers: Edward Kingmele, Permanent Secretary, Solomon Islands Department of Agriculture and Livestock

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/pacbeat/stories/s1455934.htm

* Comments:

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Posted 2:12 PM by Luigi

Resources on food processing

Thanks to Malcolm Hazelman of FAO for pointing these out:

An FAO report by Lynda D. Wickham on Small Scale Processing of Starchy Staples in CARICOM Countries: bananas and plantain (Musa spp.), breadfruit and breadnut (Artocarpus altilis and A. camansi), yams (Dioscorea spp.), cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and the edible aroids, dasheen (Colocasia esculenta var. esculenta), eddoe (Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum) and tannia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium)
A feature article from the journal Mechanical Engineering: How do you design food-processing equipment if you know little of the culture in which it will be used?

* Comments:

Post a Comment

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Posted 7:39 PM by Luigi

New Book on Hawaiian Breadfruit

Hawaiian Breadfruit: Ethnobotany, Nutrition, and Human Ecology
by Brien A. Meilleur, Richard R. Jones, C. Alan Titchenal, and Alvin S. Huang

Here's the blurb from the publishers, the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawaii at Manoa

Breadfruit, called ‘ulu in Hawaiian, was one of the plants Polynesians brought in their sailing canoes when they discovered the Hawaiian Islands. It is a staple food throughout the Pacific, and in ancient Hawai‘i it was a crop of much greater nutritional, cultural, and political significance than its presentday status here suggests. The authors of this book assembled historical references to ‘ulu and did nutrient analyses to develop a picture of the tree’s former importance. Through its manifold uses, its widespread cultivation, and its nutritional similarity to the other Hawaiian staple, kalo (taro), Hawaiian breadfruit is revealed to have had a profound role in the Hawaiian culture and the human ecology of the archipelago. This brief study of ‘ulu will reward those interested in Hawaiiana with a new perspective on a familiar tree of Hawaiian landscapes, a tree which—according to the authors—deserves much greater appreciation and use.

* Comments:

Post a Comment

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Posted 4:41 PM by Luigi

Mapping the Pacific

It is often useful to be able to quickly visualize the location of a particular site or sites on a background of a satellite image. Google Map not only provides free satellite imagery for the whole world on the web, but also software for doing simple mapping with that imagery on your own website. A colleague of mine, Dr Robert Hijmans of the University of California, Berkeley, has kindly set up a webpage at http://www.diva-gis.org/gmaps/pacific.htm which allows you to rapidly plot points for which you have latitude and longitude on a Google Map satellite image base map. He has included an option for also overlaying the EEZ of PICTs. I hope you find it useful. All feedback welcome. You can do more sophisticated spatial analysis for biological and natural resources management with the DIVA software available on the same site.

* Comments:

Post a Comment

Thursday, September 01, 2005

Posted 3:12 PM by Luigi

Breadfruit processing

From Jim Currie in FSM.

I fully support the efforts described by Adelino Lorens concerning processing breadfruit whether for sale or home use. When Richard Byers was here last year, he demonstrated that local breadfruit could be ground, extruded and when dropped in hot oil it puffed up just like 'cheese balls'. I personally am addicted to 'Ulu' (breadfruit) chips from Samoa. I think these should completely replace the junkfood we import from elsewhere. If the cost is higher, so what. Junk food is a non-essential and if people want it, they can save toward it or make it themselves. If they decide to not buy or make, maybe that is even better since they avoid the empty calories that now show up in the obesity statistics. I'd even support a ban on imported junk food.

From our possition COM/FSM, we are planning a two-pronged approach to the breadfruit issue and other staple crops as well.

In the first and easiest case, we (Engly Ioanis, Marcellino Martins, and I are planning a research/ demonstration project in three of the states of FSM to demonstrate the preservation and use of Breadfruit as the basis for a balanced swine feed diet. There are tons of breadfruit that go to waste each year while we import pig feed that is primarily energy feed based. Even if we use more breadfruit for human consumption, there will always be damaged, diseased and excess available to be preserved as feed for pigs.

Secondly, we will be hiring/acquiring a person - possibly through volunteer agencies or technical support agencies - to work full-time in Food Processing, Packaging and Marketing. One of the challenges for this person will be to develop a processing system to transform staple products to a readily useable product at a reasonable price. Possibly the extruding idea could be carried out to form a pelleted product in a sealed pack that could be easily boiled or micro-waved comparable to 'minute-rice' (that takes 10 minutes anyway). I fully expect that some of these have been developed in the region and I solicit any guidance in this topic in which I am less specialized.

Another idea that came to mind while discussing with Adelino was the promotion of breadfruit this year at the World Food Day activities and to local restaurants. I have seen some local staples used in restaurants but I think we might be able to stimulate more interest. In Sapian, we used to hold a tilapia cook-off to promote consumption of this farm-raised fish. One part of the competition was for commercial chefs. We could do something similar here by invoiting the 15 or so Pohnpei restaurants to compete for prize and distinction by developing and displaying a recipe based on or including breadfruit. Breadfruit could be suplied free of charge to the restaurant through the Agriculture Division and judging would take place in public at the
World Food Day celebrations.

* Comments:

Thanks Luigi for sharing this, these are some excellent ideas, especially to encourage people in the Pacific to eat locally produced food and at the same time earning money. I am very impressed here in Thailand to see a lot of locally produced foods, like chips, noodles and other sweets made from rice, banana and taro. I think if we have researchers and investors who are committed in this we can produce some very good products out of our traditional food sources. Some researchers here in Biotec are very interested in lactic acid bacteria fermentation, and I talked with them, it is a good way of producing nutritious foods, which reminds me of our "masi ulu" fermented breadfruit biscuits, which is a traditional food in Samoa but I never tasted it. (I only learnt in high school the processing procedure but not in practice). That should be researched too, which bacteria that are involved in fermentation and also what kind of product we can get from it. I am also interested in the pig-feeds research stated in the news, because in Tuvalu, many breadfruits are wasted too, while people are buying very expensive feeds for pigs, but I think if NGOs and government create and support initiatives to produce products out of our own resources we can do and achieve much better than what we import. Thanks to all of you researchers in FSM, you are all inspirations to me a young Pacific researcher. Go for it and remember to share your findings and vinaka Luigi for the important network.

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	A blog maintained by Tevita Kete, PGR Officer Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Suva, Fiji Islands
This weblog documents the activities of Pacific Agricultural Genetic Resources Network (PAPGREN), along with other information on plant genetic resources (PGR) in the Pacific. The myriad varieties found within cultivated plants are fundamental to the present and future productivity of agriculture. PAPGREN, which is coordinated by the Land Resources Division of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), helps Pacific countries and territories to conserve their crop genetic diversity sustainably, with technical assistance from the Bioversity International (BI) and support from NZAID and ACIAR. SPC also hosts the Centre of Pacific Crops and Trees (CEPaCT). The CEPaCT maintains regional in vitro collections of crops important to the Pacific and carries out research on tissue culture technology. The CEPaCT Adviser is Dr Mary Taylor (MaryT@spc.int), the CEPaCT Curator is Ms Valerie Tuia (ValerieT@spc.int). PAPGREN coordination and support IPGRI ACIAR NZAID CTA SPC PAPGREN CEPaCT Click on the thumbnail to see a map of the locations of Pacific genebanks. Click here to download a regional directory of genebanks in the Pacific, including information on their location, contact details and holdings. PAPGREN partners Mr William Wigmore Director of Research Ministry of Agriculture Department of Resources & Development P.O. Box 96 Rarotonga Cook Islands Tel: (682) 28711-29720 Fax: (682) 21881 Email: cimoa@oyster.net.ck Mr Adelino S. Lorens Chief Agriculture Pohnpei Office of Economic Affairs P.O. Box 1028 Kolonia Pohnpei 96941 Federated States of Micronesia Tel: (691) 3202400 Fax: (691) 3202127 Email: pniagriculture@mail.fm Dr Lois Englberger Island Food Community of Pohnpei Research Advisor P.O. Box 2299 Kolonia Pohnpei 96941 Federated States of Micronesia Email: nutrition@mail.fm Mr Apisai Ucuboi Director of Research Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forest Koronivia Research Station P.O. Box 77 Nausori Fiji Islands Tel: (679) 3477044 Fax: (679) 3477546-400262 Email: apisainu@yahoo.com Dr Maurice Wong Service du Developpement Rural B.P. 100 Papeete Tahiti 98713 French Polynesia Tel: (689) 42 81 44 Fax: (689) 42 08 31 Email: maurice.wong@rural.gov.pf Mr Tianeti Beenna Ioane Head, Research Section Division of Agriculture Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development P.O. Box 267 Tarawa Kiribati Tel: (686) 28096-28108-28080 Fax: (686) 28121 Email : agriculture@tskl.net.ki; Beenna_ti@yahoo.com Mr Frederick Muller Secretary Ministry of Resources & Development P.O. Box 1727 Majuro 96960 Marshall Islands Tel: (692) 6253206 Fax: (692) 6257471 Email: rndsec@ntamar.net Mr Herman Francisco Director Bureau of Agriculture Ministry of Resources & Development P.O. Box 460 Koror 96940 Palau Tel: (680) 4881517 Fax: (680) 4881725 Email: bnrd@pnccwg.palaunet.com Ms Rosa Kambuou Principal Scientist PGR NARI Dry Lowlands Programme Laloki Agricultural Research Station P.O. Box 1828 Boroko National Capital District Papua New Guinea Tel: (675) 3235511 Fax: (675) 3234733 Email: kambuou@global.net.pg Ms Laisene Samuelu Principal Crop Development Officer Crops Division Ministry of Agriculture, Forests, Fisheries & Meteorology P.O. Box 1874 Apia Samoa Tel: (685) 23416-20605 Fax: (685) 20607-23996 Email: lsamuelu@lesamoa.net Mr Jimi Saelea Director of Research Department of Agriculture and Livestock P.O. Box G13 Honiara Guadalcanal Solomon Islands Tel: (677) 27987 Mr Tony Jansen Planting Materials Network Kastom Gaden Association Burns Creek, Honiara P.O. Box 742 Honiara Solomon Islands Tel: (677) 39551 Email: kastomgaden@solomon.com.sb Mr Finao Pole Head of Research Ministry of Agriculture & Forests P.O. Box 14 Nuku'alofa Tonga Tel: (676) 23038 Fax: (676) 24271 Email: thaangana@hotmail.com Mr Frazer Bule Lehi Head of Research Department of Agriculture & Rural Development Private Mail Bag 040 Port Vila Vanuatu Tel: (678) 22525 Fax: (678) 25265 Email: flehi@hotmail.com Other links Other CROP agencies Forum Secretariat University of the South Pacific SPREP Pacific biodiversity Biodiversity hotspots Breadfruit Institute Hawaiian native plants Intellectual property rights Nature Conservancy PBIF PestNet SIDS WWF South Pacific Program Other Pacific organizations Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific Micronesian Seminar Te Puna web directory Pacific news Cafe Pacific CocoNET Wireless Island Directory Pacific Islands News Pacific Islands Report Pacific Islands Travel Pacific Time South Pacific travel Time Pacific Interested in GIS? DIVA-GIS	Thursday, September 08, 2005 Posted 9:01 PM by Luigi More Pacific mapping Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/) has a function for perspective views which can be quite useful. In the attached, I’ve draped an image of areas where taro (red) or banana (blue) is the dominant staple from the (PNG Farming Systems Database) over a view of northern PNG looking SE from a height of about 36 miles. * Comments: Post a Comment Posted 2:22 PM by Luigi Solomon Islands agriculture The Solomon Islands government is pinning its hopes on a new agriculture strategy to help drive the economy back into the black. A five-year plan, developed by stakeholders in the newly formed Agriculture Council, targets the rural sector as a major player in its so-called 'Rural Livelihood Plan'. The 'Agriculture Sector Strategies Plan 2005 and Beyond' aims to help individual farmers achieve product quality standards, productivity and management levels. Speakers: Edward Kingmele, Permanent Secretary, Solomon Islands Department of Agriculture and Livestock http://www.abc.net.au/ra/pacbeat/stories/s1455934.htm * Comments: Post a Comment Posted 2:12 PM by Luigi Resources on food processing Thanks to Malcolm Hazelman of FAO for pointing these out: An FAO report by Lynda D. Wickham on Small Scale Processing of Starchy Staples in CARICOM Countries: bananas and plantain (Musa spp.), breadfruit and breadnut (Artocarpus altilis and A. camansi), yams (Dioscorea spp.), cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and the edible aroids, dasheen (Colocasia esculenta var. esculenta), eddoe (Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum) and tannia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) A feature article from the journal Mechanical Engineering: How do you design food-processing equipment if you know little of the culture in which it will be used? * Comments: Post a Comment Wednesday, September 07, 2005 Posted 7:39 PM by Luigi New Book on Hawaiian Breadfruit Hawaiian Breadfruit: Ethnobotany, Nutrition, and Human Ecology by Brien A. Meilleur, Richard R. Jones, C. Alan Titchenal, and Alvin S. Huang Here's the blurb from the publishers, the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Breadfruit, called ‘ulu in Hawaiian, was one of the plants Polynesians brought in their sailing canoes when they discovered the Hawaiian Islands. It is a staple food throughout the Pacific, and in ancient Hawai‘i it was a crop of much greater nutritional, cultural, and political significance than its presentday status here suggests. The authors of this book assembled historical references to ‘ulu and did nutrient analyses to develop a picture of the tree’s former importance. Through its manifold uses, its widespread cultivation, and its nutritional similarity to the other Hawaiian staple, kalo (taro), Hawaiian breadfruit is revealed to have had a profound role in the Hawaiian culture and the human ecology of the archipelago. This brief study of ‘ulu will reward those interested in Hawaiiana with a new perspective on a familiar tree of Hawaiian landscapes, a tree which—according to the authors—deserves much greater appreciation and use. * Comments: Post a Comment Tuesday, September 06, 2005 Posted 4:41 PM by Luigi Mapping the Pacific It is often useful to be able to quickly visualize the location of a particular site or sites on a background of a satellite image. Google Map not only provides free satellite imagery for the whole world on the web, but also software for doing simple mapping with that imagery on your own website. A colleague of mine, Dr Robert Hijmans of the University of California, Berkeley, has kindly set up a webpage at http://www.diva-gis.org/gmaps/pacific.htm which allows you to rapidly plot points for which you have latitude and longitude on a Google Map satellite image base map. He has included an option for also overlaying the EEZ of PICTs. I hope you find it useful. All feedback welcome. You can do more sophisticated spatial analysis for biological and natural resources management with the DIVA software available on the same site. * Comments: Post a Comment Thursday, September 01, 2005 Posted 3:12 PM by Luigi Breadfruit processing From Jim Currie in FSM. I fully support the efforts described by Adelino Lorens concerning processing breadfruit whether for sale or home use. When Richard Byers was here last year, he demonstrated that local breadfruit could be ground, extruded and when dropped in hot oil it puffed up just like 'cheese balls'. I personally am addicted to 'Ulu' (breadfruit) chips from Samoa. I think these should completely replace the junkfood we import from elsewhere. If the cost is higher, so what. Junk food is a non-essential and if people want it, they can save toward it or make it themselves. If they decide to not buy or make, maybe that is even better since they avoid the empty calories that now show up in the obesity statistics. I'd even support a ban on imported junk food. From our possition COM/FSM, we are planning a two-pronged approach to the breadfruit issue and other staple crops as well. In the first and easiest case, we (Engly Ioanis, Marcellino Martins, and I are planning a research/ demonstration project in three of the states of FSM to demonstrate the preservation and use of Breadfruit as the basis for a balanced swine feed diet. There are tons of breadfruit that go to waste each year while we import pig feed that is primarily energy feed based. Even if we use more breadfruit for human consumption, there will always be damaged, diseased and excess available to be preserved as feed for pigs. Secondly, we will be hiring/acquiring a person - possibly through volunteer agencies or technical support agencies - to work full-time in Food Processing, Packaging and Marketing. One of the challenges for this person will be to develop a processing system to transform staple products to a readily useable product at a reasonable price. Possibly the extruding idea could be carried out to form a pelleted product in a sealed pack that could be easily boiled or micro-waved comparable to 'minute-rice' (that takes 10 minutes anyway). I fully expect that some of these have been developed in the region and I solicit any guidance in this topic in which I am less specialized. Another idea that came to mind while discussing with Adelino was the promotion of breadfruit this year at the World Food Day activities and to local restaurants. I have seen some local staples used in restaurants but I think we might be able to stimulate more interest. In Sapian, we used to hold a tilapia cook-off to promote consumption of this farm-raised fish. One part of the competition was for commercial chefs. We could do something similar here by invoiting the 15 or so Pohnpei restaurants to compete for prize and distinction by developing and displaying a recipe based on or including breadfruit. Breadfruit could be suplied free of charge to the restaurant through the Agriculture Division and judging would take place in public at the World Food Day celebrations. * Comments: Thanks Luigi for sharing this, these are some excellent ideas, especially to encourage people in the Pacific to eat locally produced food and at the same time earning money. I am very impressed here in Thailand to see a lot of locally produced foods, like chips, noodles and other sweets made from rice, banana and taro. I think if we have researchers and investors who are committed in this we can produce some very good products out of our traditional food sources. Some researchers here in Biotec are very interested in lactic acid bacteria fermentation, and I talked with them, it is a good way of producing nutritious foods, which reminds me of our "masi ulu" fermented breadfruit biscuits, which is a traditional food in Samoa but I never tasted it. (I only learnt in high school the processing procedure but not in practice). That should be researched too, which bacteria that are involved in fermentation and also what kind of product we can get from it. I am also interested in the pig-feeds research stated in the news, because in Tuvalu, many breadfruits are wasted too, while people are buying very expensive feeds for pigs, but I think if NGOs and government create and support initiatives to produce products out of our own resources we can do and achieve much better than what we import. Thanks to all of you researchers in FSM, you are all inspirations to me a young Pacific researcher. Go for it and remember to share your findings and vinaka Luigi for the important network. # posted by Anonymous : 2:35 PM Post a Comment	Archive October 2002 November 2002 December 2002 January 2003 February 2003 March 2003 April 2003 May 2003 June 2003 July 2003 August 2003 September 2003 October 2003 November 2003 December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2009 January 2010 RSS Feed Alternative feed Contact Tevita Something new: Agrobiodiversity Weblog: For discussions of conservation and sustainable use of the genetic resources of crops, livestock and their wild relatives. 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