FFTC Publications and Website on Asian Agriculture
FFTC Publications
The Center's publication program is committed to ensure that the dissemination of agricultural information is focused on the right problem, is relevant and useful, is involving the right users, and is not duplicating the information disseminated by other organizations. The most recent and relevant agricultural technology and information collected by the Center through its various activities are documented and published in the forms of technical and extension bulletins, book series, newsletters, and a yearly publication on statistical agricultural indices in the region.
Major Agricultural Statistics
The seventh issue of this regular annual periodical was published in 2007. It gives an overview of Asian agriculture by showing important agricultural statistics and indicators, including food availability, self-sufficiency rate, and farm size in 21 Asian and Pacific countries. As well as the paper publication, an electronic version is available free of charge on the Center's website (www.fftc.agnet.org).
Eco-Friendly Fish Farm Management and Safe Aquaculture Production
This book is the proceedings of the international workshop on Innovative Technologies for Eco-friendly Fish Farm Management and Production of Safe Aquaculture Foods held in Bali, Indonesia on December 04-08, 2006, organized by FFTC and co-sponsored by the Research Center for Aquaculture (RCA) of Indonesia. It includes 14 papers from 8 countries in Asia containing valuable information on major issues and recent technological advancements in the field of aquaculture toward addressing the safety of seafood products and the long-term viability and sustainability of aquaculture development in the region, particularly in respect to commercial aquaculture by small-scale fish farmers.
Improved Duck Production of Small-Scale Farmers in the Aspac Region
This volume is a compilation of papers presented during the international seminar on Improved Duck Production for Small-Scale Farmers in the ASPAC Region held in Hanoi, Vietnam on September 17-21, 2007 organized by FFTC and co-sponsored by the National Institute of Animal Husbandry (NIAH), Vietnam. The 12 papers included in this volume contains technology and information on the efficient production of ducks for Asian small-scale farmers, particularly in the areas of genetic improvement and improved cultural practices.
Extension and Technical Bulletins
Extension and technical bulletins are a series of outstanding and relevant papers collected and selected from the various activities of the Center such as seminars and workshops, deemed as useful reference materials on Asian agriculture for scientists and researchers, as well as for policy makers and extension workers. Extension bulletins are practical information for extension purposes, while technical bulletins are recent and advanced research for scientists and researchers. Authors of these papers are participants to the Center's activities from its different member countries in the region, or keynote speakers or resource persons who are distinguished agricultural experts and research managers in the Asian region and beyond. Following is a list of extension and technical bulletins published in 2007:
Extension Bulletins (Eb)
- EB 588 Implications of an unintended area-wide IPM for Chilo suppressalis in Japan
- - Keizi Kiritani
- EB 589 Food regulations on agrochemicals for ensuring the quality and safety of food supply in Japan
- - Shoji Miyagawa
EB 590 Management and regulatory control of agrochemical residues in food production in Taiwan
- - Ching-Wen Kao
- EB 591 Approaches to the problems on pesticide residues in crops and soils in Japan
- - Yasuhiro Yogo
- EB 592 Development of GAP and traceability system for greening the food chain in Taiwan
- - Jong-I Hu
- EB 593 Women's roles and needs in changing rural Asia
- - Thelma Romero Paris
- EB 594 The feminization of agriculture in Asia: implications for women's agency and productivity
- - Govind Kelkar
- EB 595 I. Family management agreement in rural areas: Japan's experiences
- - Sumuko Abe
- II. Change and problems of rural family and rural women in Japan
- - Tokuya Kawate
- EB 596 The needs and demands of women farmers in agricultural production and rural livelihood, and their expected roles in rural development
- - Shu-Kwei Kao
- EB 597 Bioavailability and safety of heavy metals in paddy soil-rice continuum in Korea
- - Won-Il Kim
- EB 598 Prediction of heavy metals uptake by different rice species in paddy soils near contaminated sites of Taiwan
- - Horng-Yuh Guo
- EB 599 Current status of bio-pesticides development, farmers' acceptance and their utilization, and future perspective in Taiwan
- - Suey-Sheng Kao
- EB 600 Current status and future direction on commercial production and use of bio-fertilizers in Japan
- - Tadashi Yokoyama
- EB 601 Current status of bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticides development, farmers' acceptance and their utilization in Korea
- - Hyeong-Jin Jee
- EB 602 The status of bio-pesticides and bio-fertilizers in the Philippines
- - Pio A. Javier
- EB 603 Current status of bio-fertilizers development, farmers' acceptance and their utilization, and future perspective in Taiwan
- - Shiuan-Yuh Chien
- Technical Bulletins (TB)
- TB 175 New aspect of collaborative research on soil pollution, food safety and soil remediation techniques in Asia
- - Zueng-Sang Chen
- TB 176 Heavy metal pollution, risk assessment and remediation in paddy soil environment: research experiences and perspectives in Korea
- - Jae E. Yang
- TB 177 Heavy metal pollution of soil and a new approach to its remediation: research experiences in Japan
- - Tomoyuki Makino
FFTC Website on Asian Agriculture
Over the past 37 years, FFTC as a regional information center in the Asian and Pacific (ASPAC) region has played an immensely important role in collecting, exchanging, and disseminating information on a wide range of modern and practical technologies, covering the full spectrum of small farm needs and activities relevant to the region. Through its various activities like seminars and workshops, training courses, and regional surveys, we have accumulated a huge body of knowledge and information on agriculture made possible through the works of hundreds of people from member countries and partner institutions. Disseminated through publications, training courses and demonstration projects, these knowledge and information have given countless resource-poor farmers and extension specialists in the region new opportunities and new solutions to their problems.
Six years ago, the Center made available free-of-charge on its website the full text of all its publications in the last 15 years. Since then, the FFTC website and database has become an important information resource on Asian agriculture, particularly for the national extension systems in the region. The growing use of the FFTC website/publication database gave a larger number of people access to the Center's technical and practical information on sustainable agriculture.
The FFTC website recently underwent major redesign and renovation to give it a more international presence, and to upgrade its underlying technology to deliver all the functionality required to fully expand its technology dissemination to the widest clients possible. Hence, by the end of 2007, the website registered an impressive performance with a total of 7.15 million hits. Requests were mostly from scientists, researchers, students and extension workers not only in the ASPAC region but in many countries all over the world.
We welcome everyone to this much improved, more user-friendly FFTC website, redesigned and renovated to enhance the Center's technology transfer mission, facilitate interaction and networking among partner institutions within the region, and make possible a more cost-effective way of disseminating practical information to our users, particularly the small-scale farmers.
For further information, contact:
Ms. Cristina P. Bejosano,
FFTC Information Officer
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Figure 1 2007 publications
Figure 2 www.fftc.agnet.org
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