The Nursery & Garden Industry Queensland (NGIQ) has
completed an innovative project transferring a popular pest and
disease identification handbook to an electronic format. The
resource has all the data stored on a memory card that can be
inserted into portable platforms such as Personal Digital
Assistants (PDAs) and some Smartphones. The identification tool
has almost 200 factsheets with 782 images and uses touch screen
menu navigation.
The project was jointly funded by NGIQ and Horticulture
Australia Ltd (HAL) and released to industry in August 2009. In
this Nursery Paper, John McDonald, NGIQ Industry Development
Manager, (IDM) provides an overview of this industry
innovation.
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