Heat causes chicken death

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Heat stress can cause sudden death to broiler chicken if farmers are not careful in their attitudes towards raising chicken under village conditions in the lowlands of PNG, according to NARI's Livestock Programme in Lae, Morobe Province. An assessment report by the programme states that the comfortable ambient temperature range, or the thermal comfort zone, for chicken should be between 4ºC to 27 ºC with relative humidity below 50%. When the temperature exceeds 27 ºC, chicken typically react to the emerging heat stress conditions by eating less food and increasing their respiration rate and panting. The assessment was made following reports of an unusually very high sudden death of large numbers of broiler chicken in a commercial broiler farm in the Gobari area outside Lae city. Read More...

Biocontrol strategy for invasive species

Wesnesday, January 6, 2010

The biological control of invasive species in the Pacific was the agenda of a strategic workshop held in New Zealand recently. Plant protection experts and quarantine specialists from the Pacific and international community were taken to task to address issues of adopting biological control or biocontrol as a tool to fight invasive pests and weeds in agriculture, forestry and important ecosystems in the region. ‘The Regional Biocontrol Strategy Development Workshop’ was held at Auckland from November 16-18 2009. Read More...

Dr Ghodake re-appointed Director General of NARI

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

The National Executive Council (NEC) has re-appointed Dr Raghunath Ghodake as the Director General of NARI for another term of four years commencing December 9 2009. In announcing the appointment on Christmas Eve, NARI Council Chairman Dr John Kola said Dr Ghodake’s appointment was based on his performance as NARI CEO for the last seven years and his contributions to the Institute’s establishment, development and progress. “Dr Ghodake has a wide experience and in-depth understanding and knowledge of agricultural research for development issues at the national and international level. “His proven leadership in the Institute since its establishment 13 years ago has helped NARI progress on all fronts,” Dr Kola said. Read More...

NARI wins three EU-ACP grant awards

Monday, December 28, 2009

NARI has successfully won three major ‘capacity development’ projects from the European Union, totaling EURO 2.8 million (K11.5 million). The projects under the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Science and Technology (S&T) Programme will be implemented in three Western Pacific Countries - PNG, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu - over three years starting in early 2010. The ACP S&T Programme is an ACP-EU co-operation pro­gramme to support ACP countries in strengthening research, development and innovation as well as in formulating and implementing S&T policies for sustainable development and poverty reduction. A total of nine research and development organisations will benefit from these sub-regional projects. Read More...

ICT key for agricultural research and development

Saturday, December 19, 2009

The use of new Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the management and sharing of information is crucial for rural development, according to Dr Ajit Maru of the Global Forum in Agricultural Research (GFAR), Italy. Dr Maru, a senior agricultural scientist and an international expert in agricultural ICT said the effective use of ICT in agricultural research can change a lot of issues and challenges faced by resource-poor farmers of the world. He said this in his welcome address of a week-long global consultation on agricultural Information and Communication Management (ICM) which was held at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, during December 7-11, 2009. Read More...

Global meet on information communication management in agriculture

Friday, December 18, 2009

An international consultation on ‘Information and Communication Management (ICM) and Agricultural Research for Development and Innovation: Addressing emerging challenges and exploiting opportunities through Information and Communication Technologies’ was held for senior researchers, academics and information specialists in agricultural and rural development from around the globe. The meeting was staged at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, during December 7-11, 2009. Read More...

 

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