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THIS workshop was an activity of AClAR Project No. 8844, 'The development of
postharvest handling technology for selected tropical tree fruits'. The project was
undertaken by collaborating research teams at the Queensland Department of Primary
Industries in Australia, and the Department of Agriculture, the Thailand
Institute of Scientific and Technological Research, and Chiang Mai and Kasetsart
universities in Thailand.
Cooperative research provided the opportunity to maximise benefits per research
dollar expended, by reducing duplication of effort and providing additional 'fruit
season' time within the life of a research program. Longer term benefits will
accrue from the training and equipping of research scientists and facilities and
from fostering government-to-government and researcher-to-researcher good will.
Benefits and scientific breakthroughs can arise from the synergy of cooperative
research sharing ideas, information, skills and pieces of the puzzle being solved
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