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MELBOURNE TO HOST INT`L BIOTECH & AQUACULTURE MEETS
By Neville D'Cruz
MELBOURNE, Sept 17 (Bernama ) -- Melbourne will host the Australasian
Aquaculture International Conference and Trade Show in 2012 and the
International Association for Plant Biotechnology (IAPB) Congress in 2014.
Melbourne Convention and Visitors Bureau (MCVB) chief executive Sandra
Chipchase said the two conferences, expected to attract some 2,500 delegates,
are to inject more than A$13 million into the Australian economy.
"The IAPB Congress has never been held in Australia before, but Melbourne's
excellent infrastructure and MCVB's innovative bidding strategies have secured
this event for 2014," said Chipchase in a statement.
Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Biosciences Research executive
director and elected IAPB president Prof German Spangenberg said important
topics to be discussed at the IAPB Congress included climate change impacts on
agriculture, drought, biofuels advances and biosafety.
He said the world faced major challenges in feeding a growing population,
expected to reach nine billion people by 2050, including the major humanitarian
challenge to alleviate hunger, malnutrition and poverty, afflicting more than
one billion people worldwide.
"Plant Biotechnology has emerged as a critical platform to contribute to
meeting this challenge, and we look forward to progressing our knowledge on
this important field in Melbourne in 2014," said Spangenberg.
He said the Australasian Aquaculture International Conference would deal
with contemporary issues around the aquaculture industry's development and
sustainability.
"Seafood is Australia's fourth most valuable food-based primary industry,
with Victorian commercial fisheries' production worth around A$87 million a
year.
"This makes Melbourne a perfect destination for aquaculture leaders in
industry and science, research and development to meet," he said.
World Aquaculture Society-Asia Pacific president Roy Palmer said there was
an urgent need to increase both capacity and capability of the seafood industry.
-- BERNAMA
MELBOURNE, Sept 17 (Bernama ) -- Melbourne will host the Australasian
Aquaculture International Conference and Trade Show in 2012 and the
International Association for Plant Biotechnology (IAPB) Congress in 2014.
Melbourne Convention and Visitors Bureau (MCVB) chief executive Sandra
Chipchase said the two conferences, expected to attract some 2,500 delegates,
are to inject more than A$13 million into the Australian economy.
"The IAPB Congress has never been held in Australia before, but Melbourne's
excellent infrastructure and MCVB's innovative bidding strategies have secured
this event for 2014," said Chipchase in a statement.
Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Biosciences Research executive
director and elected IAPB president Prof German Spangenberg said important
topics to be discussed at the IAPB Congress included climate change impacts on
agriculture, drought, biofuels advances and biosafety.
He said the world faced major challenges in feeding a growing population,
expected to reach nine billion people by 2050, including the major humanitarian
challenge to alleviate hunger, malnutrition and poverty, afflicting more than
one billion people worldwide.
"Plant Biotechnology has emerged as a critical platform to contribute to
meeting this challenge, and we look forward to progressing our knowledge on
this important field in Melbourne in 2014," said Spangenberg.
He said the Australasian Aquaculture International Conference would deal
with contemporary issues around the aquaculture industry's development and
sustainability.
"Seafood is Australia's fourth most valuable food-based primary industry,
with Victorian commercial fisheries' production worth around A$87 million a
year.
"This makes Melbourne a perfect destination for aquaculture leaders in
industry and science, research and development to meet," he said.
World Aquaculture Society-Asia Pacific president Roy Palmer said there was
an urgent need to increase both capacity and capability of the seafood industry.
-- BERNAMA
