Taro Links
Here is a list of taro sites... an example of what's out there....
If you find anything else of interest, send the link to
admin@tga.cjb.net
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Australian Taro Sites |
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Taro Pest Website Indescribable.... for value and presentation, information and use of IT skills. Many governments IT's could learn from this one... all that's missing is AQIS/BA and the mentality of, ilk like Mr Howards government ...on the virus page... DPI&F: Taro-Production The information on Taro production in this note is based on field observations, local growers experience and literature from elsewhere as little research has been conducted in Queensland. Needed article for the aspiring local growers..
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DPI&F: Taro-The Plant Taro belong to the family Araceae and comprise a number of species that produce edible tubers or corms. Another very helpful summary
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RIRDC Taro Fertiliser Trials The recent report from Mark Traynor NT (PDF file) Must have growers resource in assessing fertiliser requirements. We've got a rave on this in our Taro Topics Issue 8 |
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RIRDC Select
Markets for Taro, Sweet Potato and Yam 2003 Priceless
publication from RIRDC, covers extensive and in depth summary of taro
cultivation, production, trade and potentials in the Asian-Pacific region,
including Australia, USA, Hawaii and China. Well researched and worth the read,
including the global overview.
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FAO-Taro
cultivation in Asia and the Pacific while not
Australian, but in conjunction with the previous RIRDC link, the FAO gives an
informative and detailed overview of Asian-Pacific and brief global taro
production. Interesting is Africa's the worlds largest taro producer
(4,452,000tonnes), followed by China (1,387,000t), PNG has (160,000t) Fiji
around (21,000t)..compared to us (Australia) at around 1,500t. This is a multi-page document.
(arrows at the top, load the next Chapter) covers a lot of
material/aspects on taro
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3rd Taro Symposium Just dug this one up... from
Puff the magic dragon....and complete with the celebrity name
....Giving predictions for the future of the Australian taro
industry, ...???? ....more mystical taro magical mushroom stuff...
delivered by ...the Wisp of the Smoke....???
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Planthoppers in Australia and origins of taro P.J. Matthews. This
ones a gem, about a guy in the early days, who set upon the wild frontiers of Far North
Queensland/PNG searching and finding the secrets of Planthoppers and wild taro, against the odds of scientific belief and tropical
man eaters. A Classic... this is
academic observation at
its best...
Long live ....P.J Matthews...
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ABC TV Gardening
program Does a short splurt on taro in the home garden with Jerry
Coleby-Williams.
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Taro
School Project One for our budding young growers
!!! ....and that AQIS and Biosecurity
Australia should have looked at....
to-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o.........
late !!!
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| Biosecurity Australia hands slapped over citrus canker Sorry folks... couldn't help this one... Media release on how BA was going to pull it's socks up... and never did !!! You'll note it's at the bottom of our Australian links pile... and I hope BA notes it too.... How is it remotely possible, for the .....weight of airheads ...to sink so low!! |
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Hawaiian Taro Sites |
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Hawaiian Biological Survey Large lists of Hawaiian taro varieties. If you don't have Java VM check out the Names Database for the Index. 600 listed cultivars from a pool of 2000 and that's just Hawaii.. Taro has many footprints..
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Hawaiian Research University of Hawaii Lots of good material here..... A goldmine ...Grab it before some goon ....slaps this mine with a patent and property rights!!!!
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Hanalei Taro Farms A brief overview of Hawaiian farm and Links Probably these won't werk..... to find out why ... try this one
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National Tropical Botanical Garden Botany of taro
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Wetlands Taro Cultivation and planting and maintenance and harvesting and processing Probably these won't werk either..... to find out why ... try this one
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Taro Culture in Hawaii Background of the origins of taro... the culture and legends. Very nice
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Hawaii Taro Page General listing & info... though some links don't work..
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Taro Dream A food product site that relays the nutritional merits in a kind of colourful taro mushroom wonderland. Medicinal style.. with testimonials... this is Awesome...
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Canoe Plants of Ancient Hawaii
Good site of old taro stories/culture
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Crop Production Guidelines University of Hawaii cultivation and production notes |
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Ethnobotanical Leaflet
of Taro, taxonomy etc ..from Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, USA
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Farmers Bookshelf: Taro
growing notes more from University of Hawaii
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Homepage of Juan Wilson Nice homepage of taro patch and pictures
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What is Taro Covers the species of Colocasia with pictures from the Hawaii Bishop Museum. |
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Calories
of Taro Gives small table breaking down 85gm taro into
90 calories, fat free and with added vitamins. Site covers nutritional values
of other fruits & veges
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Pacific and Other Taro Sites |
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3rd Taro Symposium Background and purpose of the Fiji pre-Symposium 3rd Taro Symposium Held in Nadi, Fiji 2003
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Taro Beetles
http://www.spc.int/pps/regional_taro_beetle_management_project.htm http://www.spc.int/pps/old%2Dindex.htm
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CABI Data Sheet on Taro Leaf Blight http://www.phytid.org/CPC/Data/P.%20colocasiae.htm
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Morphological and isoenzyme variability of taro (Colocasia esculenta L. Schott) germplasm in Cuba... Rocket science ....suitable for propellerheads http://www.ipgri.cgiar.org/pgrnewsletter/article.asp?lang=es&id_article=6&ID_ISSUE=126 |
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Brief short description of taro with pictures http://waynesword.palomar.edu/vege1.htm
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Lengthy document about waste and toxins managements,
rising sea levels etc in the Pacific 2003, ....if you're so
inclined. The Islands have fragile ecosystems ... especially since colonialists
arrived. Was OK for thousands of years before that.... Anyways, somewhere in
here is taro... here it is, Page 20 "Of particular concern is the widespread use of DDT in Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands in malaria control programmes. In Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa and Fiji, Gramoxone (the deadly herbicide paraquat), which is commonly dispensed in beer or soda bottles and indiscriminately used on coffee plantations, home gardens and taro plots, is the most common suicide "potion", as well as being responsible for many accidental deaths throughout the islands (Keith-Reid, 1981)". and here Page 26: "The increasingly widespread indiscriminate use of herbicides such as the very toxic paraquat (Gramoxone) can only serve to destroy valuable organic matter. Its use is particularly widespread in taro plantations in Fiji and Rarotonga. "
An ACIAR article on Taro Beetle affecting Banana root crops in Fiji. One we bombed and bashed AQIS/BA with.
Quite a nifty site from the Solomon Islands. It did have taro in here somewhere, but here's some on Taro Snail. The Kastom Gaden Association has a leading role in keeping traditions alive along with the help of voluntary and foreign aid workers. Not often does subsistence areas have a direct website presence, and interesting to see of their lifestyle... http://www.terracircle.org.au/index.html
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