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  • From: Organic Pineapple Working Group <opwg AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • To: Organic Pineapple Working Group <opwg AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [OP] Reactivating the OPWG
  • Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:52:10 +1000


On 9 Mar 2007, at 4:09 AM, Organic Pineapple Working Group wrote:


The Organic Pineapple Working Group (OPWG) is a semiautonomous
subgroup of the Pineapple Working Group (PWG) of the Commission for
Tropical and Subtropical Horticulture of the International Society
for Horticultural Science.

Initially, the OPWG included private, institutional and governmental
pineapple growers, researchers and specialists in sustainable,
equitable and integral rural development from Australia, Cuba,
Dominica, Guyana, Hawaii, India, Ivory Cost, Mexico, Pau Pau New
Guinea, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and South Africa.

However, the number of members is now double the original amount and
aside from their names, the newer members haven't identified
themselves. Therefore, I am going to ask all OPWG subscribers to
kindly supply either the list as a whole (preferably) or myself The
following information:

Name: David Flewell-Smith

Profession: Farmer Organic and conventional

Organization: self employed

Location: Australia

Current and/or Planned Pineapple related Activities: and

Willingness or Hesitance to Share Technical Information regarding
any or all of the following: At the moment, no fresh organic pineapples can be imported due to the need to fumigate for weed seeds

A).- Pest and Disease Control; Yes

B).- Maintaining Soil Fertility; Yes

C).- Pineapple Propagation; Yes , conventional

D).- Induction of Florescence; yes but mum's the word on two out four

E).- Variety Development;

F).- Pineapple Processing;

G).- Use of Pineapple Wastes;

H).- Promotion and Marketing of Organic Pineapple; yes

I).- Financing Organic Pineapple Production; and ?

J).- The possibility of participating in a Collaborative Organic
Pineapple Research Project. yes but limited though there is Government funding as part of a overseas aid project.
I have a new harvester that is able to cut off pineapple tops cost about $35,000 US
kaolin clay can be sourced more cheaply than the US sourced Enhlehard product price in Australia $3800 local source though not as good is around $A 700 per tonne.
Until now, the commercial growers among us have been reticent to
share information with potential competitors. While this is
understandable, it is never-the-less lamentable, since it makes for
a pretty dull and inactive OPWG.

So with the hope of identifying the areas in which a greater degree
of interchange can occur and to determine how many of you are
actually out there listening and willing to respond, I'm posting
this notice to the OPWG list server. The future and importance of
OPWG depends on your response.

Douglas Hinds
Chair, OPWG
"Douglas Hinds / Dir. Gral." <cedecor AT gmx.net> (CeDeCoR, A.C.)
Centro para el Desarrollo Comunitario y Rural
(Center for Community y Rural Development)
Mexico

P.S.

Is anyone using Compost Tea? If so, any comments you care to make
(to the group as a whole or to me directly) regarding the details
and the results would be appreciated.

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