Little millet (Panicum sumatrense) is widely grown in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, eastern Indonesia and western Myanmar. (FAO and ICRISAT, 1996. The World Sorghum and Millet Economies: Facts, Trends and Outlook. https://www.fao.org/3/w1808e/w1808e00.htm)
Chlophorus varius is a dominant and an economically important boring insect pest in several fruit orchards, such as citrus and mango. (Plant Pests of the Middle East, 2017 http://www.agri.huji.ac.il/mepests/pest/Chlorophorus_varius/)
Exotic germplasm is germplasm not native to a particular country, ecosystem or ecoarea (area). It can be an important resource for crop and livestock improvement. Exotic germplasm can include landraces and wild relatives. (Adapted from Guide to the classical biological control of insect pests in planted and natural forests, FAO Forestry Paper No. 182, 2019 (http://www.fao.org/3/ca3677en/CA3677EN.pdf) ands https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/60701500/Publications/Holland/HollandEncylPltCropSci04.pdf)
Financial literacy is the understanding of various financial areas including topics related to managing personal finance, money, borrowing, investing. (EutoVoc, 2024. Financial literacy. http://eurovoc.europa.eu/c_859ae4e1)
Cashmere wool, usually simply known as cashmere, is a fiber obtained from cashmere goats, pashmina goats, and some other breeds of goat. It has been used to make yarn, textiles and clothing for hundreds of years. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashmere_wool)
Forestry engineering is an interdisciplinary science and technique applied in bioprocess and biosystem-based engineering to maintain forest sustainability, manipulate forests for sustainable use, and build or construct new forests. (Institut Teknologi Bandung, 2023 Undergraduate Program in Forestry Engineering https://www.itb.ac.id/undergraduate-program-in-forestry-engineering)
A solid or liquid intended for dilution before use as a bait. (FAO/WHO. 2016. Manual on development and use of FAO and WHO specifications for pesticides. 1st Edition, 3rd revision, FAO, Rome. Available online: http://www.fao.org/agriculture/crops/thematic-sitemap/theme/pests/jmps/manual/en/ )
Microplastics are usually defined as plastic items which measure less than 5 mm in their longest dimension, this definition includes also nanoplastics which are particles less than 100 nanometres (nm) in their longest dimension. Plastic items may be manufactured within this size range (primary micro- and nanoplastics) or result from the degradation and fragmentation of larger plastic items (secondary micro- and nanoplastics). (Microplastics in fisheries and aquaculture, FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper No. 615, FAO, 2017)
Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_calving)
Fish that spend their adult life in the sea but swim upriver to freshwater spawning grounds in order to reproduce. (United Nations.1997. Glossary of Environment Statistics. Studies in Methods, Series F, No. 67)
Fresh flowers and flower buds that have been cut from the plant suitable for bouquets, wreaths, corsage and special flower arrangements. (Cut Flower Production in Asia, FAO 1998 https://www.fao.org/3/ac452e/ac452e07.htm)
Biotic indices are numerical expressions coded according to the presence of bioindicators differing in their sensitivity to environmental conditions. (Graça, M.A.S. and Coimbra, C.N., 1998. The elaboration of indices to assess biological water quality. A case study. Water Research, 32(2), pp.380-392.)
LN33 stem grooving is one of the four disorders that make up the rugose wood complex of grapevines. LN33 stem grooving syndrome is distinguished by biological indexing, but no virus has been found associated with this syndrome. (Adapted from The Grape Community of Practice. 2019. Rugose Wood Complex of Grapevines https://grapes.extension.org/rugose-wood-complex-of-grapevines/)
