2002/2003 Research in Progress
Table of Contents
- Research in Progress
- 1. MAF Policy Funded Operational Research in Progress 2002/2003
- 2. Undertaking Operational Research Under Contract to MAF Policy
- 3. Biological Control of Possums
- 4. Facilitating Market Access
- Revision of the genus Rhizoglyphus in New Zealand and Australia
- Identification and establishment of the levels of food safety pathogens on fresh produce in N.Z., and intended for export.
- Consumer/health component of a quantitative risk assessment of Salmonella in sheep meat produced in New Zealand.
- Alternatives to Methyl Bromide as a fumigant for forestry exports - a literature review
- 5. Maintaining Biosecurity
- Investigating green-grafting as a technique for detecting viral infection in imported grapevine stock
- Distribution of saprophytic fungi in New Zealand
- Endogenous positive control PCR assays
- Generic detection of plant viruses
- “Differential diagnosis for mouth and feet lesions in NZ sheep caused by infectious diseases and Non-infectious causes”.
- Development of a synthetic pheromone for use in the gum leaf skeletoniser eradication programme
- Enhancement of national animal health surveillance through capture of veterinary technical data to define disease incidence in farm animals (2002 / 03)
- Interisland livestock movements and traceability
- Contact rates for livestock
- 6. Promoting Industry & Rural Community Performance
- 7. Facilitating Resource Management
- Reassessment of the stock unit system
- The role of productive land-use in biodiversity conservation
- Evaluation of whether yield tables are needed for small-scale forest owners, including farm forestry
- Welfare impacts of vertebrate poisons:
- Quantify contamination of groundwater (as part of the project: - “Pathogen Transmission Routes”)
- Developing silvicultural guidelines for the sustainable management of indigenous forests on private land
- Low impact silviculture (2002/03)
- Developing management guidelines for pinhole borer in beech forests:
- 8. Animal Welfare
- Effect of level of shepherding on ewe and lamb death rate between scanning and weaning
- Dairy calf welfare and performance
- Neonatal mortality in Wiltshire, Dorper and Damara Sheep, and their crosses, with woolled breeds
- Effects of age on pain sensation following castration in lambs
- Welfare guidelines for low-chemical pastoral farming
- Develop criteria for assessing the welfare of animals and decision rules for ensuring high standards of care
- Evaluation of devices for monitoring stock truck microclimates
- Development of a stock truck microclimate monitoring system
- 9. Other Funding Approvals
- Developing of Integrated Control Programmes for Varroa Control in New Zealand
- Towards sustainable control of Varroa Mite
- Appendix One - Contracts awarded as at 30 November 2002
- Appendix Two - Science Policy Unit
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Monitoring and Evaluation
MAF Policy
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NEW ZEALAND
Phone: +64 4 894 0623
Fax: +64 4 894 0741
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