Hugh Harries - Tropical Tree Crops Agronomist
PACIFIC
1993 CSIRO & DPI Research Stations, Darwin (familiarisation with cashew research)
1993 ACIAR consultant to coconut projects in PNG & Fiji
1992 IBPGR (IPGRI) consultant to establish COGENT (Coconut Genetic Resources Netweork)
1981 13th International Botanical Congress, Sydney (presented paper entitled "Coconut: the milk bottle on the door-step of mankind") .
1981 Research School of Pacific Studies, Canberra (gave seminar on coconut evoultion and dissemination)
1998 EU Review mission, Pacific Regional Agricultural Programme, Production and dissemination of improved coconut cultivars
1993 ACIAR consultant
1998 EU Review mission, Pacific Regional Agricultural Programme, Production and dissemination of improved coconut cultivars
1993 ACIAR Coconut Project consultant
1990-91 ADB Smallholder Oil Palm consultant (Team Leader)
1989 ACIAR Coconut Project consultant
1988 PNG Cocoa & Coconut Research Institute consultant
1983-1988 Chief Agronomist, New Britain Palm Oil Development
1988 Familiarisation tour of Dodo Creek Agricultural Experiment Station, CDC (oil palm) & Levers Pacific Pty (coconut)
1998 EU Review mission, Pacific Regional Agricultural Programme, Production and dissemination of improved coconut cultivars
1998 EU Review mission, Pacific Regional Agricultural Programme, Production and dissemination of improved coconut cultivars
1981 ODA consultancy to report on coconut development project at IRHO research station, Santo.
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