New Zealand and Australian Avocado Growers’
Conference ‘05
Tauranga, New Zealand
20 – 22 September 2005
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
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SESSION 1. Introduction |
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Welcome |
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Official
Opening |
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Keynote
Address – ‘Beyond Yield’ |
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Climate
change – risks and opportunities for the avocado industry |
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2. Building demand – promotions, marketing and customer and consumer trends
and expectations |
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The
NZ situation- consumption of
fresh fruit and vegetables – barriers and opportunities |
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Developing
the UK avocado market through generic promotion |
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Report
on Australian consumer research |
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The
Australian marketing programme |
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Fresh
Change: A new dimension in data analysis and retail strategy |
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SESSION
3. Pest disease control strategies, integrated production systems and the
impact on market access |
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Chemical
reviews, CODEX, and into the future with chemicals for avocados |
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Spotting
bug management in avocados - a review |
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Development
of a non-chemical treatment system for avocado against Queensland fruit fly
for interstate trade |
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Managing
avocado pests with romance, intrigue and war – intergrating pheromones,
assassins and weapons of mass destruction |
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New
strategies for the integrated control of avocado fruit disease |
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New
control strategies for Phytophthora root rot |
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SESSION
4. New germplasm and global breeding programmes |
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Avocado
breeding and selection in South Africa |
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Rootstock
improvement for the Australian avocado industry – Progress report |
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Avocado
Germplasm Preservation and Breeding programme in California |
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Panel
discussion and question and answer session from the floor |
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SESSION
5. Competing in a global world: a series of presentations by AMAPWG member
delegates |
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Theme
setting presentation – scope and role of AMAPWG |
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New
Zealand exporters perspective |
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An Israeli perspective |
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A Mexican perspective |
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A
South African perspective |
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An
Australian perspective |
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SESSION
6 Postharvest quality, outturn |
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Avocado
postharvest quality – an overview |
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Improving
avocado fruit quality through tree nutrition – present knowledge and future
directions |
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Does
fruit water status at harvest determine the inherent ripening rate and
expression of ripe rots |
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Library
trays – a powerful tool in fruit quality management |
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Stem
end rots – how, where, and what do they infect? |
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Resolving
long distance shipping disorders in Hass avocado |
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Effect
of water loss after harvest on fruit quality |
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SESSION
7 Flowering, fruit set and yield |
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Overview
– avocado pollination |
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Understanding
avocado fruit set in New Zealand – an overview |
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The
California cross pollination experiment |
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SESSION
8. ‘Profit Together’ – addressing grower technology, technology transfer and
production communication needs and expectations |
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Panel Members: |
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Guy Witney |
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Derek Donkin |
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Antony Allen |
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Jonathan Cutting |
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Jose Obregon |
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Question and answer session from the floor |
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SESSION
9. Fruit size and production |
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Growing
avocados in Chile: A focus on orchard systems, fruit set and size |
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Mulching
– is it worth it? |
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Photo-oxidation
in avocado leaves |
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Planting
systems on hillsides – a holistic approach |
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New
strategies and tools for avocado canopy management |
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An
innovative system to achieve early precocity in avocado under the marginal
growing environment in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand |
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CONFERENCE
CLOSING |
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