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Tree domestication in tropical agroforestry

Author: 
Simons AJ, and Leakey RRB
Journal: 
Agroforestry Systems
Url: 
dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:AGFO.0000028997.74147.f9

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ABC Rural News: Rice trial in north-west Queensland

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http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201303/s3708076.htm
The push to grow food in Northern Australia is gaining momentum with a trial rice crop in north-west Queensland. An agricultural company is leasing 500 hectares of land on a station west of Richmond to grow rice and mungbeans. (Wednesday, 06/03/2013)

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ABC Rural News: Wyndham Port says it's ready for sugar

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http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201211/s3638229.htm
The Wyndham Port says it will be able to export all the sugar which is expected to come from the future sugar mill in the Ord. (Thursday, 22/11/2012)

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Queensland Agriculture News: Cotton future is wrapped in good management

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http://www.daff.qld.gov.au/30_22014.htm
Five years of research into cotton-growing in the sugar-rich Burdekin shows that farmers have the potential to reap lucrative returns if they carefully tailor practices to account for the monsoonal season. Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) Senior Research Scientist Dr Paul Grundy said while cotton had the potential to provide another source of income for cane farmers, it had also delivered agronomic and productivity benefits. (Tuesday, 14/08/2012)

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ABC Rural Feature: Digester manages chook waste

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http://www.abc.net.au/rural/content/2012/s3573255.htm
Commercial poultry farmer Geoff Ironside from Townsville has invested in a thermophilic digester which uses heat and enzymes to turn organic waste, including manure, cardboard and chicken corpses, into fertiliser quickly and efficiently. (Wednesday, 22/08/12)

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ABC Rural News: Farmers urged to have a crack at gac

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http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201208/s3559984.htm
Horticultural growers are being encouraged to diversify into producing gac, a South East Asian tropical fruit. Gac can be grown in the field in tropical regions and in greenhouses in temperate climates. (Friday, 03/08/2012)

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ABC Rural News: Sugar cane trials resume in the Kimberley

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www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201206/s3528164.htm
The WA Department of Agriculture and Food is ramping up its trials of sugar cane, in anticipation the crop might make a comeback in the expanded Ord Irrigation Scheme. (Tuesday, 19/06/2012)

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ABC Rural News: Hope at last for growing rice in Queensland

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www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201206/s3518345.htm
It's been grown before and failed, but now rice is set to make a comeback in the Burdekin district of North Queensland. The opening of a $2.4 million processing plant at Brandon has raised hopes rice may again become a viable alternative crop for the sugar cane industry. (Tuesday, 05/06/2012)

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ABC Rural News: Trial of Japanese rice successful in the Burdekin

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www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201205/s3509193.htm
The harvest of Australia's first crop of Japanese rice has raised hopes of North Queensland becoming a new source of rice for tsunami-stricken farmers. (Wednesday, 23/05/2012)

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ABC Rural News: Turning sugarcane waste into fibre supplement

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www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201205/s3503110.htm
Sugarcane growers in far north Queensland are holding a meeting to investigate alternative uses for the crop. More than 150 products can be made with sugarcane, but for the most part, there's only one made in Australia - refined sugar. (Tuesday, 15/05/2012)

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