Appendix One - Contracts awarded as at 30 November 2001
| Institution | Title in Brief | Programme |
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Facilitating market access |
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| Hort+Research | Trapping for flight season, Arhopalus | 4.1 |
FMA |
179 |
43279 | |
| Landcare Research | Identification keys for Tetranychidae | 4.2 |
FMA |
180 |
85352 | |
| Institute of Environmental Science & Research | Risk assessment of Salmonella in sheep meat products | 4.3 |
FMA |
181 |
107841 | |
| ABARE | Sheep Meat Modelling | 4.4 |
FMA |
188 |
153287 | |
| Animal Welfare | ||||||
| Massey | Welfare & mortality of newborn calves in the dairy industry | 8.1 |
FMA |
182 |
61875 | |
| Massey | Chronic pain in ruminants after painful husbandry practices | 8.2 |
FMA |
183 |
27000 | |
| AgResearch | Monitoring welfare of stock presented for slaughter | 8.3 |
FMA |
184 |
24618 | |
| AgResearch | Shade: Its use by livestock & effectiveness in alleviating heat challenge | 8.4 |
FMA |
185 |
56250 | |
| AgResearch | Performance testing of farm animals | 8.5 |
FMA |
186 |
17078 | |
| AgResearch | Environmental conditions and long distance / inter-island transport | 8.6 |
FMA |
187 |
36000 | |
| Facilitating resource management | ||||||
| National Institute of Water & Atmosphere | Riparian attenuation of faecal microbes | 7.1 |
FRM |
490 |
67441 | |
| Landcare Research | Developing silvicultural guidelines for the sustainable management of indigenous forests on private land | 7.2 |
FRM |
491 |
53492 | |
| Landcare Research | Low impact eco-silviculture | 7.3 |
FRM |
492 |
48825 | |
| Landcare Research | Welfare impacts of vertebrate poisons | 7.4 |
FRM |
493 |
33200 | |
| Landcare Research | Assessment of welfare performance (humaneness) of commercially available kill traps | 7.5 |
FRM |
494 |
18000 | |
| Agriculture New Zealand | Animal health and welfare on lifestyle blocks and hobby farms | 7.6 |
FRM |
495 |
33750 | |
| Otago University | Analgesic best practice for use of animals in research & testing - an interpretive international literature review | 7.7 |
FRM |
496 |
15629 | |
| AgResearch | Implications of intensive cattle grazing systems on rolling and hill country | 7.8 |
FRM |
497 |
48836 | |
| Forest Research | Developing management guidelines for pinhole borer in beech forests | 7.9 |
FRM |
498 |
16875 | |
| Promoting industry and rural community performance | ||||||
| New Zealand Institute of Economic Research | Impact of e-Government on the rural sector | 6.1 |
ICP |
551 |
37500 | |
| Agriculture New Zealand | Farm adjustment and restructuring | 6.2 |
ICP |
552 |
63562 | |
| Agriculture New Zealand | A comparative study of the physical and financial performance of M_ori-owned and European-owned farm and horticultural businesses within Northland | 6.3 |
ICP |
553 |
33750 | |
| Maintaining biosecurity | ||||||
| Massey | Studies on the distribution and taxonomy of Arhopalus spp. in Australia & New Zealand | 5.1 |
MBS |
330 |
47820 | |
| Forest Research | Investigation of the suitability of NZ forest flora for reproduction & development of lymantriid species | 5.2 |
MBS |
331 |
77690 | |
| Forest Research | Incidence of stained growth rings in elm trees growing in Waikato | 5.3 |
MBS |
332 |
45766 | |
| Landcare Research | Lophodermium identification tools | 5.4 |
MBS |
333 |
69811 | |
| Crop & Food | Sensitivity and reliability of methyl bromide sachets used to monitor and verify fumigation parameters | 5.5 |
MBS |
334 |
20070 | |
| Institute of Environmental Science & Research | Comparison of New Zealand and overseas isolates of Salmonella typhimurium DT 160 | 5.6 |
MBS |
335 |
24950 | |
| Institute of Environmental Science & Research | Molecular and animal-based studies on the NZ Salmonella Typhimurium DT160 clone | 5.7 |
MBS |
336 |
79994 | |
| Hort+Research | Development of a synthetic pheromone for use in the gum leaf skeletoniser eradication programme | 5.8 |
MBS |
337 |
97607 | |
| Possum biocontrol / Tb Control | ||||||
| Landcare | Possum population responses to fertility control | 3.1.1 |
PBC |
220 |
214,700 | |
| Melbourne University | Blocking embryonic development in brushtail possums | 3.1.2 |
PBC |
221 |
332,966 | |
| AgResearch | Control of reproduction in possums by targetting the pituitary gland through the use of Gn-RH toxin conjugates | 3.1.3 |
PBC |
223 |
292,400 | |
| AgResearch | Control of reproduction in possums by targetting the oocyte specific growth factors GDF-9, and GDF-9B | 3.1.4 |
PBC |
224 |
98,320 | |
| AgResearch | Controlled oestrus and synchronised breeding in possums to facilitate the testing of new biocontrol agents. | 3.1.5 |
PBC |
225 |
117,000 | |
| AgResearch | Viruses for biological control | 3.3.1 |
PBC |
222 |
141,650 | |
| AgResearch | Transgenic worms for the Control of possums | 3.2.1 |
PBC |
227 |
122,100 | |
| AgResearch | Improved diagnostic tests & vaccines for the control of bovine tuberculosis | 3.4.1 |
PBC |
228 |
784,875 | |
| AgResearch | Oral delivery of bioactives for possums | 3.4.2 |
PBC |
226 |
146,150 | |
| Other Funding Approvals | Other Funding Approvals | |||||
| Hort Research | Varroa control approaches | 9.1 |
VAR |
007 |
292,319 | |
| Soil & Health | Small Growers Organic Development Programme | 9.2 |
ORG |
005 |
150,000 | |
| AgResearch | Electronic detection of biohazards - (arachnids and reptiles | 9.3 |
BMG |
002 |
165,232 | |
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NEW ZEALAND
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