The Passion Vine
The Passion Vine – June 2014
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Executive Report
Membership renewal forms will be in the package you receive with this edition of The Passion Vine. Remember, if you haven’t renewed your membership to PAI, you don’t have the option to vote at the AGM or nominate your favoured Executive. The Horticulture Review has been a very important issue for all horticulture industries, but particularly small industries such as the passionfruit industry. Keith and I have been to a number of meetings and at this stage can only tell you that HAL have called an Extraordinary General Meeting in Cairns on June 20th (The Passion Vine will be at the printers). The outcomes and the on-going process of this Review will be made available on the revised PAI web site.
June 2014
A Note from the President
By Jann Bonsall The past three months have flown by, as have the 9 previous, so here we are reminding everyone it’s time to renew memberships, nominate for positions on the Executive and make sure you book your place at the PAI Annual General Meeting and the Annual Levy Payers’ Meeting on August 30th on the Sunshine Coast. More details on page 11.
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And speaking of the revised web site, the passionfruit industry can only applaud the hard work of Graeme Forsythe and his partners in what I believe is a vast improvement on our previous “page” on the internet. It has become a far more interactive site for growers and researchers to access technical information, or “outsiders” looking for the latest gastronomic recipe where passionfruit is the hero! We look forward to any comments, positive or constructively critical. We have also listened to your comments relayed to us by the Independent Survey of the Passionfruit Industry by Scott Williams. Over this and the following two editions of The Passion Vine, you will have an overview of all the research and development projects that have been undertaken by the passionfruit industry as far back as 1995! This history starts on page 6 but if you want more
(Continued on page 17) Newsletter of Passionfruit Australia Incorporated
By Keith Paxton
I would like to make growers aware that there will be vacancies on the Executive Committee this year. Growers need to fill these positions to keep our industry moving forward. Our industry body is in an excellent financial position and also levies are increasing each year and they need to be directed to projects that are going to take our industry forward. It is growers’ money and if they want results they need to become involved in the process. In recent years we have struggled to get new executive members as have other industries. Some of the Executive members have put in quite a few years now and it would be good to get some young growers with fresh ideas to put their hands up.