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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">The Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research (ACPIR) invites you to join our monthly Pacific Seminar Series, where people discuss aspects of their
research, work or cultural experiences related to the Pacific Islands to stimulate conversations and connections.</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">This month's topic:<b>
<i>Intensification of sweet potato production in Papua New Guinea: strengthening supply chains, high performance planting material and improving plant protection</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="color:black">Prof Phil Brown and Dr Bree Wilson<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#262626">When: </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#262626">12 - 1pm Wed 23 Feb, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="textrun"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Register </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#262626"><a href="https://usc-au.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvdu6gqzwtHtREk9Aqghx8PWJiXB0nXrq-?fbclid=IwAR3QM7i4CBCdCuOc3qi5T1pdEGrbeiitVxlq6zSwUSDaDD6VbS9uSxv_dQk" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;background:white;text-decoration:none">HERE</span></span></a></span></strong><span class="eop"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">You can also join us on</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#232333"> Facebook<b> </b></span></span><span class="eop"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#232333"><a href="https://fb.me/e/1CW3nHcXc"><span style="color:#0066CC">HERE</span></a></span></b></span><span class="eop"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#232333"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#262626">In this seminar, join Professor Phil Brown (CQU) and Dr Bree Wilson (USQ), who will talk about aspects of their recently concluded PNG sweet potato projects. Professor Phil led the TADEP project “Supporting commercial
sweet potato production and marketing in the PNG Highlands” and Dr Bree was a research fellow leading the biocontrol work in the “Developing improved crop protection options in support of intensification of sweetpotato production in Papua New Guinea” project
led by Professor Geoff Gurr at Charles Sturt University. Phil and Bree will talk about what the projects achieved, what worked well, what could be done differently next time and opportunities for future research, development and extension.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#262626">Dr Bree Wilson </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#262626">is a Research Fellow in biological control at the Centre for Crop Health (Research), University
of the Southern Queensland. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#262626">Prof Phil Brown</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#262626"> is Professor of Horticulture Science and Director of the Institute for Future Farming Systems
at CQUniversity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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