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Prof Phil Brown

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Professor of Horticultural Science
Prof Phil Brown is Professor of Horticultural Science and Director of the Institute for Future Farming Systems at CQUniversity. Over the past 25 years, he has led research teams delivering new knowledge and better production practices for the horticultural industry both in Australia and in neighbouring Pacific Island countries. His research approach is to develop improved horticultural industry agronomic and post-harvest practices based on sound scientific knowledge. This approach has been applied in over 40 large industry supported research grants and consultancy contracts, including projects in PNG, Fiji Samoa and Tonga. Phil is a past President of the Australian Society for Horticultural Science and has been an invited speaker at conferences in Asia, Europe and North America.
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Topics of interest:
Crop agronomy/physiology topics, preferably with an agtech or protected cropping systems component.
PNG: Research Leader on ACIAR funded project HORT/2014/097 Supporting commercial sweetpotato production and marketing in the PNG highlands, and collaborating research on project ASEM/2006/023 Re-Commercialisation of the PNG Pyrethrum Industry to Improve the Harvested Yields in Australia. Collaboration with staff at NARI and FPDA. Successful supervision of one PNG Masters student.
Fiji, Samoa, Tonga: Research Leader on ACIAR funded project HORT/2014/080 Integrating protected cropping systems into high value vegetable value chains in the Pacific and Australia. Collaboration with staff at SPC, Fiji MoA and Tonga MAFFF. Successful supervision of two Masters students.

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