Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 8, Number 1, 1 Ianuali 1991 — Taro-related database completed by UH Manoa [ARTICLE]

Taro-related database completed by UH Manoa

The University of Hawaii's College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources recently eompleted a 3,300 citation database on the tropical crop, taro. This database will give taro industry growers, researchers and processors accesstoan! extensive, centralized resōurce of taro related data, from marketing and promotion to hybridization to pest control. With the growing popularity of taro's nutritious food products, such as the traditional poi and the less traditional taro bread, this database will help agri-businesses keep current with industry trends. Production of the database was a joint project of the college's departments of Agronomy and Soil Science, and Agricultural and Resource Eeonomics. The computerized database compiled by staff members, Scott Campbell, Peter Rotar, Jim Hollyer and Lisa Roehm, uses Pro-Cite commereial software to organize information and ean be obtained in both ASCII-disk and hardcopy formats. The project was partially supported by a USDA Cooperative State Research Service grant whieh was secured through the efforts of U.S. Senator Daniel K. lnouye and U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka. For more information, telephone Scott Campbell, (808) 956-6971 or Peter Rotar, (808) 956-6871. All correspondence ean be sent to the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Department of Agronomy and Soil Science, 1910 EastWest Road, Sherman Lab 101, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822.