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June - July 2005

1. Ban on betel nut exports may be lifted

2. Resurrecting microscopes

3. Stow-away eggs cause quarantine concern in FSM

4. LRD hooks up with APEN

5. Micronesian states develop draft ERPs

6. Pacific Regional Seminar on Participatory Agricultural Extension, Tonga, 21-25 November, 2005.

7. Managing rhino beetle in Wallis and Futuna

8. Whitefly threat in FSM

9. Screening taro beetle insecticides in Solomon Islands

10. Organic Farming Project on Savai’i

11. Staff Travel

May 2005

1. Taveuni still free of taro beetle

2. Palau entomology work

3. Plant disease survey for Rotuma, Fiji

4. Helpdesk established for Import–Export Biosecurity Technology Centre

5. International Phytosanitary Portal (IPP) training workshop

6. Vanuatu: on-farm bio-pesticide research

7. Fiji Organic Association seeks recognition

8. Sweet potato diagnostic key web release

9. Regional pest list database goes on-line

10. Plant parasitic nematode survey in FSM

11. PPS Staff Duty Travel

April 2005

1. Strategies to improve biosecurity border management

2. Research to identify new threat to taro in Samoa

3. SPC represented at IPP meeting

4. Pacific Islands PLD

5. Trial taro farm established at Tetere Prison Farm, Solomon Islands

6. Farmer extension training on kava dieback disease management

7. Staff Travel

March 2005

1. Insects attacking new homes in Niue no cause for alarm

2. Plant health status for Tonga

3. Plant health status for Niue: a survey of virus and virus-like diseases

4. Quarantine training for Micronesia

5. FSM prepared for possible invasion by betel nut bud rot disease

6. Samoa and Cook Islands ratify IPPC

7. Samoa Training Centre receives funding for organic project

8. Biocontrol of Weeds in Vanuatu

9. Biosecurity Information Facility (BIF) workshop

10. Staff Travel

February 2005

1. Agricultural Training for French Polynesia Young Farmers

2. Plant Protection Micronesia

3. Biosecurity alert for overseas relief assistance

4. PPS Entomology activities for the month

5. Staff Travel

January 2005

1. Solomon Island pest management activities

2. Developing an information system for taro pests

3. SPC funded student projects

4. ACIAR and PPS collaborate on plant protection research

5. Farmers encouraged to go organic

6. Fiji PLD refresher workshop

7. International Portal on Food Safety, Animal and Plant Health (IPFSAPH)

8. Staff travel

November/December 2004

1. Taro Beetle Meeting and Taro Beetle Public Awareness

2. International Kava Conference

3. French Polynesia: Young Farmers Receive Training

4. Village Decree on Rhinoceros Beetle Control

5. Nematode Disease Survey in Palau and Yap

6. Coconut Wood Goes Flooring

7. HTFA Operational in Tonga

8. Year 2004: It’s a Wrap

October 2004

1. Vanuatu: taro beetle and fruit fly activities

2. Papua New Guinea: weed management activities

3. Food security for atolls

4. IPM and organic gardening promoted to Fiji schools

5. Plant disease survey for French Polynesia

6. FSM disease surveys

7. HTFA operational in Tonga

8. Completed PPS activities in PICTs for October

9. PPS Staff Travel

September 2004

1. Cook Islands: quarantine awareness for the motus
2. Plant Protection Micronesia
3. Cook Islands PLD version 2 installed
4. Land Resources Division hosts Heads of Agriculture Meeting
5. New fumigant to replace methyl bromide
6. Completed PPS activities in PICTs for September

August 2004

1. PPS assistance boosts organic farming in Niue

2. An update on nematode diseases for Samoa

3. Protecting Taveuni from taro beetle

4. Samoa weed survey

5. Tonga extension workers receive communications training

6. Biocontrol agents arrive in Vanuatu

7. Ladybird beetle to fight mealybugs in Marshall Islands

8. Yaqara Pastoral Company ventures into horticultural production with neighbouring settlements

9. Completed activities in PICTs

10. PPS Staff Travel

July 2004

1. Papaya ringspot disease detected in Rarotonga

2. Tonga entomology activities

3. Quarantine activities for Kiribati

4. First Regional Conference of Ministers of Agriculture and Forestry

5. Samoa – first country to receive PLD Version 2

6. News from the Palau Pacific Festival of Arts, with a quarantine twist

7. Completed PPS activities in PICTs

8. PPS staff travel calendar

June 2004

1. Developing extension materials national workshop - Samoa

2. Remote primary school participate in taro disease screening and use rural email technology to communicate

3. Quarantine awareness for Palau Pacific Arts Festival

4. PLD to go Region-wide

5. CD-ROM on PPS updated and distributed every 6-months

6. PPS promotes bio-control in work activities

7. Niue Quarantine refresher training

8. Samoa exports papaya to NZ

9. Agricultural science for South Pacific Form Seven Certificate

10. WTO Distance Education Gateway

11. New version of the Phytosanitary Capacity Evaluation

12. Completed PPS activities in PICTs

13. PPS staff travel calendar

May 2004

1. More trials on Confidor®, an insecticide for control of taro beetles

2. Vanuatu Post-entry quarantine facility nearing completion

3. Wallis et Futuna – 12th PICT to receive Pest List Database

4. Plant health survey to update weeds and diseases for Wallis et Futuna

5. Tonga wants improved trade facilitation for export crops

6. Vaini agricultural station receives equipment for plant pathology lab

7. Taro ‘pula’ disease investigated in Samoa

8. Fiji quarantine stations receive latest PLD upgrade

9. Glassy-winged sharpshooter reported in Hawaii

10. Completed PPS activities in PICTs

11. PPS staff travel calendar

30th April 2004

1. Developing extension materials workshop for Cook Islands

2. Solomon Islands & Papua New Guinea take on Pest List Database

3. Cocoa Pod Borer Emergency Response Plan for PNG

4. Student project on quarantine amnesty bin analysis

5. Tuvalu fruit fly host survey

6. Fiji Bilateral Quarantine Agreement (BQA) Task Force Committee

7. Integrated approach to address pest problems of Tonga squash crop

8. Training for Micronesia quarantine officers

9. Completed PPS activities in PICTs

10. PPS staff travel calendar

26th March 2004

1. Biosecurity, Plant Protection and Animal Health Meeting

2. Solomon Island Electronic Library Update

3. Identifying the citrus canker strain in Micronesia

4. Biosecurity and trade issues for Pacific islands

5. Completed PPS activities in PICTs

6. PPS Staff travel calendar

20th February 2004

1. Plant Protection Micronesia

2. Vanuatu Nakamal bars ranked highest as sources of information

3. Strengthening Organic Farming in the Pacific

4. Microscope hot tips

5. Quarantine activities for PICTs

6. PPS Internet Site on CD

7. Pest List Database: help from new staff

8. SPC Agricultural Staff Changes.

9. Biosecurity, Plant Protection and Animal Health Meeting (BPPAH) Tradewinds, Lami, 15 – 19 March 2004

10. Completed PPS activities in PICTs

11. PPS Staff travel calendar

22 December 2003

1. Quarantine in-flight video cautions Pacific travellers

2. Tonga MAFF-PPS Banana wilt survey

3. NAQIA/PPS Citrus disease and vector delimiting survey in northwest PNG

4. PRA for Samoan taro farmers

5. PPPO ExCo reviews prospects for a regional PLD

6. Pacific Ant Prevention Plan

7. Butaritari Te Bwata-ni-mai Association held first meeting

8. Completed PPS activities in PICTs.

9. PPS Staff travel calendar

12th November 2003

1. Panama disease of banana spotted on Vava’u

2. RPPO 15^th Technical Consultation

3. Fiji Ag Show: Sigatoka Research Station

4. Samoan farmers pick and choose favourable taro varieties.

5. Queensland Fruit Fly Eradicated on Rarotonga

6. PPPO Executive Committee Reviews Prospect for a Regional PLD

7. PNG Weed Biocontrol Training.

8. Biocontrol agent to control invasive vine on Saipan

9. Yam disease threatens Pohnpei food staple

10. SPC PPS Internet Site invites input from PICTs

11. Completed PPS activities in PICTs

12. PPS Staff travel calendar.

23rd September 2003

1. Tonga Weed Pests Survey

2. Developing diagnostics standard for HLB disease

3. Update on plant protection activities in Micronesia

4. Monitoring rhinoceros beetle damage in Wallis

5. CD-ROM on invasive species out in 2004

6. PPS staff visit French Polynesia

7. Pest List Database: New Caledonia and Samoa & a Regional Meeting

8. New Caledonia Disease Survey, 23^rd August – 6^th September

9. PPS Notable Achievements

10. Request for collaboration

11. 15^th Technical Consultation among Regional Plant Protection Organisations

12. Completed PPS activities in PICTs

13. PPS Staff travel calendar

30th July 2003

1. Entomology Attachment Training for Pacific Islanders

2. Solomon Island Electronic Library Project

3. Rust-resistant coffee

4. Chromolaena biocontrol and Snail Research in Micronesia

5. Lucid Taxonomic Keys developed for B. dorsalis complex

6. Pacific island Quarantine Operations Training

7. Kava Dieback Research Activities

8. Vanuatu Disease Survey

9. An overview of Vanuatu Plant Parasitic Nematodes

10. Samoa Rhinoceros Beetle Media Awareness

11. Phellinus noxius – brown root disease

12. Review of GTZ/SPC Bio-control Projects in Pacific region

13. Completed PPS activities in PICTs

14. PPS Staff travel calendar

June 2003

1. Entomology Update 

2. Solomon Islands Ministry of Agriculture and Lands joins the information superhighway

3. Samoa emergency response plan for pest and disease outbreaks

4. 6^th International Workshop on Chromolaena Management

5. Taro Beetle Management Project

6. 2003 Quarantine Training for Micronesia

7. Farmer-focus extension communications

8. Pest List Database come to Vanuatu

9. Second Hawaii Annual Fruit fly Area Wide Pest Management Conference

10. Quarantine media messages for SPG 2003

11. FAO Employment Opportunities

12. PPS Staff Travel

10th April 2003

1. PNG Fruit Fly Programme (PNGFFP)

2. Venomous snake found in Pohnpei, FSM

3. Wallis and Futuna Extension Activities

4. Pacific Quarantine Operations Manual goes electronic

5. Pest List Database comes to American Samoa

6. USP to get new molecular biology laboratory: SPC collaboration

7. SPC & NZMAF take message to Pasifika Festival

8. USA South Pacific Scholarship Programme

9. Household food production promotes a healthy and nutritional way of life

10. PPS Staff travel calendar

20 February 2003

1. CABI Crop Protection Compendium

2. Rhinoceros beetle on the rise in Samoa

3. Plant protection activities in Yap 

4. Pest List Database Workshop in Cook Islands

5. Fiji Quarantine Section up-graded to Division Level

6. Fiji Quarantine target travellers to SPG 2003

7. Pacific quarantine awareness campaign show positive results

8. Condolences

9. PPS Staff travel calendar

September-December 2002

1. Samoa Quarantine Improvement Project

2. Pest Management in Micronesia

3. Fiji Trade Facilitation Work

4. Reviewing Niue airport and wharf quarantine operations

5. Entomology work in the Cook Islands

6. Pacific island quarantine awareness campaign

7. Fiji Quarantine targets SPG 03 athletes and officials

8. SPC helps Solomon Islands set up agricultural electronic library

9. Tonga PRA Training

10. PNG citrus greening disease

11. Fruit-fly man Luc Leblanc leaves SPC

12. Nematode Workshop

13. PPS supports Tokelau quarantine logo competition

14. Posters on yam diseases

15. At last….our photos

16. Safe Holidays

17. PPS Staff travel calendar

23 August 2002

1. CTAHR solves the mystery of Taro Pocket Rot

2. The Plant Protection Service Internet site

3. Bob Ikin on Pest Risk Analysis in Developing Countries: Capability & Constraints

4. SPC/PPS Entomology Update

5. Cook Islands Plant Disease Survey

6. Oriental Fruitfly Expansion in French Polynesia

7. Plant Protection Service Staff Travel

8. SPC Plant Protection Service Events

10 July 2002

1. Information on High Temperature Forced Air (HTFA) Treatment 

2. Rat Control in the Pacific

3. Plant Protection Internet Sites

4. Do you have something to contribute?

5. Suspending implementation of ISPM No. 15

6. Plant Protection Service Staff travel

7. SPC Plant Protection Service Events

22 May 2002

1. Review of the Queensland Fruit Fly Eradication Program in Cook Islands

2. High Temperature Forced Air (HTFA) for Samoa & Vanuatu

3. Orchid weevil in American Samoa

4. Information on International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

5. PPS Extension

6. Pest List Database (PLD)

7. Plant Protection Service Staff travel

5 April 2002

19 February 2002

1. 11^th Regional Technical Meeting on Plant Protection

2. The XXII International Congress of Entomology 2004

3. Posters on plant pests on-line

4. Internet sites for pesticides, pests.

5. Melon fly in Nauru

6. Vacancies in the Plant Protection Service

7. Pest List Database

8. PPS Extension Component

9. Plant Protection Service Staff travel

10. SPC Plant Protection Service Events

21 January 2002

1. Warning against use of the moth Psigida walkeri for biological control

2. Free Plant Protection Publications from Hawaii

3. The Australian Plant Disease Database

4. Postharvest Quality Survey of Pacific exports to Auckland, New Zealand

5. World taxonomist database

6. Biocontrol of Sida

7. Identity of Oriental fruit fly complex invasive species in Palau

8. Queensland Fruit Fly in Cook Islands

9. Vacancies in the Plant Protection Service

10. Plant Protection Service Staff travel

11. SPC Plant Protection Service Events

2 November 2001

1. Customs and Quarantine: Single or Separate Departments?

2. Plant Protection Service Information Needs Survey 2001

3. Tahiti Disease Survey

4. Tahiti Import Risk Analysis workshop

5. New publication on PNG smut fungi

6. SOPAC 10^th Regional Disaster Management meeting, Auckland, New Zealand

7. Change of Plant Imports Staff Member in New Zealand

8. Plant Protection Service Staff travel

9. SPC Plant Protection Service Events

7 September 2001

1. Trade with New Zealand: Two Key Documents

2. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) on the Internet

3. Pest lists on the Internet 

4. Pesticides under trial in the Pacific 

5. Market Access of fresh fruit and vegetables in Australia 

6. SPC Plant Protection Service Internet website – on CD 

7. Plant Protection Service Staff travel 

8. SPC Plant Protection Service Events 

25 July 2001

1. SPC Plant Protection Service Internet website – on CD 

2. Information on pesticides under trial in the Pacific 

3. Costs of chemical diamond back moth control in Fiji

4. Methyl bromide update 

5. Pacific Pest fact sheets from ADAP 

6. Word of Thanks 

7. 10th Pacific Entomology Conference, Hawaii Feb 2002 

8. Course on collection, preparation and curating of insect specimens

9. Plant Protection Service Staff travel 

10. SPC Plant Protection Service Events 

6 July 2001

1. Third Interim Commission on Phytosanitary Measures, Rome, Italy, 2-6 Apr 2001 

2. Fifth International Congress of Dipterology: 29 Sep-4 Oct 2002, Brisbane, Australia. 

3. Methyl-Bromide Alternatives 

4. Weed Risk Assessments 

5. New Pests established in Hawaii 

6. New Disease Reports: on-line journal from Britain

7. Integrated Pest Management resources.

8. Correction

9. SPC Plant Protection Services Staff travel

10. SPC Plant Protection Services Events

10 May 2001

1. Biocontrol of Sida rhombifolia in Papua New Guinea

2. Information on Pesticides under trial in the Pacific

3. New Zealand’s import health standards for fruits and vegetables

4. Sales of Benlate by DuPont to end by December 2001

5. Plant Protection Organization of the Pacific (PPPO): Third Meeting 

6. Suppliers of fumigation equipment

7. Pacific Pest Lists

8. New Zealand takes Quarantine Infringements by Passengers seriously

9. CD of Taxonomy Training Manuals from SAFRINET

10. Survey on PICTs Plant Protection and Quarantine Information Needs (2000)

11. Black Sigatoka Outbreak in Queensland, Australia

12. Biocontrol meeting

13. Report on the 2001 US Scarab Workshop

14. SPC Plant Protection Services Staff travel

15. SPC Plant Protection Services Events

4 Apr 2001

1. Plant Protection Organization of the Pacific (PPPO): Third Meeting

2. Proposed Certificate Course in Agricultural Information Management

3. Agricultural use of Chlorfenvinphos cancelled in Australia 

4. Information on Pesticides registered in Australia

5. A New Service: Plant Protection Service Internet Site available on CD

6. CD of Taxonomy Training Manuals from SAFRINET

7. Survey on PICTs Plant Protection and Quarantine Information Needs (2000)

8. SPC Plant Protection Services Staff travel

9. SPC Plant Protection Services Events

16 Mar 2001

1. New insecticide for pest control in brassicas

2. Traveller learns that Austalia is serious about Quarantine

3. Advance Notice: Pest Alert on the Orchid Weevil

4. Survey on PICTs Plant Protection and Quarantine Information Needs (2000)

5. Plant Protection Service looking for a Partner

6. SPC Plant Protection Services Staff travel

7. SPC Plant Protection Services Events

6 Feb 2001

1. Free online articles of Florida Entomologist

2. Mango Pest Alert

3. Survey on PICTs Plant Protection and Quarantine Information Needs: 1st Results

4. Dangers of Wood Packaging

5. SPC Plant Protection Services Staff travel

6. SPC Plant Protection Services Events

16 Jan 2001

1. Release of PestAlert No 19, False Kava

2. New pesticides

3. Pheromones

4. Global entomology contacts, events and societies

5. SPC Biocontrol assistant migrated to New Zealand

6. CABI stopped insect identification services

7. Use of METHYL PARATHION on several crops cancelled in USA 

8. Use of Diazinon to be restricted in USA 

9. PPS on The Internet

10. SPC Plant Protection Services Staff travel

13 Dec 2000

1. SPC policy on support for Import Risk Assessment (IRAs) to PICTs

2. SPC Plant Protection Services Planned Workshops

3. SPC Plant Protection Services Staff travel

8 Nov 2000

1. Remaining uses of the pesticide Ethyl Parathion cancelled in the USA.

2. APHIS websites

3. GPPIS CD: Note for those having difficulty accessing it.

4. Dupont lowers price of Steward in Fiji

5. SPC Plant Protection Services Staff travel

29 Sep 2000

1. CAB Abstracts August 1998 - July 2000.

2. Extra items on the GPPIS CD

3. Difficulties loading the GPPPIS CD?

4. Pesticide Databases on the Internet

5. Pest Alert No 19: False Kava

1 Sep 2000

1. Pesticide profiles

2. Field guide to exotic forestry pests and diseases - Reminder

3. Remember your Information Needs Assessment Questionnaire

4. SPC Identification Service - free for you!

18 Aug 2000

1. Information Needs Questionnaire

2. Preliminary results: Herbicide Test on False Kava (P. auritum)

3. FAO's International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs)

4. FAO's Pesticide Management Guidelines

5. Pheromone trapping of Rhinoceros beetle

6. Field guide to exotic forestry pests and diseases

8 Aug 2000

1. Longhorned beetles in Bonsai Nursery Stock

2. Economics of chemical Diamond back Moth control

3. PPS Plant Protection Staff visits to PICTS: feedback from you

19 Jul 2000

1. Diamond Back Moth

2. Chromolaena odorata

3. New arrangements for this news message

4. New SPC Plant Protection Service Information Officer

5. Results of Julia Brunt 8/12/1998 Questionnaire on GPPIS & computers

9 Jul 2000

1. Website on Pacific fruit flies

2. Agricultural schools in the South Pacific

3. FAO database of Post harvest experts

4. Database of contacts on anything related to horticulture in New Zealand

5. AQIS database with import requirements for commodities

6. AQIS phone, fax numbers

25 June 2000

1. Methyl bromide

2. Pesticides and safety

3. Revamped ADAP website

4. Literature search relating to Micronesia

18 Jun 2000

1. Paraquat

2. Diamond Back Moth – Cotesia plutellae

3. ECOPORT

4. AQIS publications via email and free

5. Free abstracts on specific vegetable crops by email

6. Free information on job vacancies and other topics by email

7. Read web pages without being connected to the web

8. Funding Assistance

9. List of email contacts

10. Aliens list server

7 Jun 2000

1. ANIC Technical Training course

2. Anybody has experience with alternatives to Paraquat?

3. Off IPMnet NEWS, June 2000

1. EPA ISSUES GUIDANCE ON THE EXEMPTION OF MINIMUM RISK PESTICIDES UNDER FIFRA SECTION 25(B)

2. EPA ANNOUNCES RECALL OF TWO PESTICIDE PRODUCTSSOLD IN FAULTY PULL 'N SPRAY CONTAINERS 

28 May 2000

1. Emergency Response Plan

2. Pesticides

3. South Pacific Trade Commission

4. ANIC Technical Training course

5. Pesticides

19 May 2000

General emergency response plan.

7 May 2000

1. Summary of import regulations of the European Plant Protection Organisation. 

2. The ADAP Agricultural Pests of the Pacific fact sheet publication series.

3. The US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) distributes its Pesticide Program Updates to external stakeholders and citizens who have expressed an interest in OPP activities and decisions.

4. Searches on the web.

5. SPC agricultural database.

21 Apr 2000

1. IPMnet is a monthly email service dealing with anything connected to IPM.

2. In case you are looking for agricultural or lab equipment.

3. Scholarships/research training.

15 Feb 2000

Course on biocontrol of weeds

10 Feb 2000

1. SPC may have funds available to compile a booklet on major pests of the South Pacific. 

2. Pesticides

3. CAB Abstracts

2 Dec 1999

The Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau provides abstracts of numerous plant protection journals.

Jun 1999

Two Fruit Flies Declared Eradicated from Mainland Australia.

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