Engaging the horticulture sector with native bee pollinators
Australian native bees play an important and often undervalued role pollinating plants and crops, many of which can’t be pollinated by introduced species. Forecast increased...
World Hemp and Other Bast Fibre Manufacturing Developments
20 pages
Published: 1 May 1998
Author(s): Ditchfield, Carolyn
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The report sets out important world findings on harvesting and processing technologies, textile applications of bast fibres and how techniques developed in Poland could be considered in using hemp to mop up contaminated land or water from mining operations or sewerage works in Australia.
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