Takuji Ohyama, Faculty of Agriculture, Niigata University
Biofertilizer mailing list
Biofertilizer mailing list has been established for exchanging information among researchers, producers, technicians, farmers, students and people who are interested in biofertilizer in Asia proposed in the last meeting in Bangkok. This list is managed by Project manager Dr. Tsuguo Genka JAIF. There are 73 people in the current list.
51 Japan, 7 Thailand, 5 China, 2 the Phillipines, 2 Indonesia, 1 Malaysia, 1 Vietnam, 1 Korea, 1 Taiwan, 1 Bangladesh, 1 ICRISAT.
In order to make asian networks of biofertilizer, it is necessary to ask to resistrate more than 10 people in each country.
We send BFINFOs as follows.
0001 Start of Biofertilizer Information of FNCA (02.4.22)
0002 Draft of Bio. Newsletter from Dr. Genka (02.4.22)
0003-0006 Workshop announcement from ICRISAT (02.4.22-)
0007 Database of biofertilizer mailing group (02.5.13)
0009 The 10th New Phytologist Symposium on Functional Genomics of PlantMicrobe Interactions
0010 Bio. Newsletter Issue 1
0012 Meeting about BIOTEC during 17-20 July 2003 in Thailand
0013 17th World Congress of Soil Science in 2002 Bangkok
0014 Post doctoral fellow of York Univ. England
0015 Research information about NOD facter receptor
Until now, all the informations were sent from Japanese group and ICRISAT. Please feel free to send any news, comments, questions as a BFINFO to Dr. Genka. In near future the home page of biofertilizer project FNCA should be started based on the mailing lists.
FNCA Coordinators Meeting
The meeting was held from 6-8 March 2002 in Tokyo. In this meeting the project proposal of “production and Use of Biofertilizer” which was discussed in the workshop of August 2001 in Bangkok was officially approved. Dr. Ampan Bhromsisi of Chiang Mai University Thailand was invited to present and appeal the importance of biofertilizer in agriculture.
Biofertilizer Group News Issue no.1
Biofertilizer News Issue no.1 was published in April 2002 edited by Dr. Tsuguo
Genka. The main contents are :
(1) Production and use of biofertilizer
(2) Call for the personal list for biofertilizers in Asia
(3) FNCA coordinators meeting in March 2002 in Tokyo.
Delegation of Japanese BF member to Thailand
Dr. Shotaro Ando visited Thailand from March 17 to 23, 2002 supported by MEXT Japan. He reported the current status of biofertilizer researches in Thailand
(Attachment 1).
Publication of Introduction of Biofertilizer project in Japan
Two papers were published to introduce Biofertilizer project of FNCA in Japan as follows:
(1) Takuji Ohyama: Atomic cooperation in Asia, Use of radioisotopes and radiation for agriculture; Biofertilizer: Agriculture in compatible with environment. Genshiryoku eye
Vol. 48, no6, p.17 (2002) in Japanese
(2) Takuji Ohyama; To exchange researches and technologies of the use of biofertilizers in Asia; -Start of project in FNCAIsotope
See newsletter at link above