Address
PO Box 42

Town/City
Shanhua

POST/ZIP code
741

Telephone No.
(+886) 6-5837801

Fax Number
(+886) 6-5830009

Email Address
avrdcbox@netra.avrdc.org.tw

Web Address
www.avrdc.org.tw

Organisational Structure
Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (AVRDC) is governed by an international board of directors and run by a Director General, Deputy Director General, Assistant Director, and three Program Directors.
The research programs are:
- Vegetables in Cereal-based Systems;
- Year-round Vegetable Production Systems;
- Collaboration in Research and Germplasm Management.
The staff is formed by 25 internationally recruited staff members, and 250 national researchers and technical, administrative, and support staff.

Elevation
13 m

Annual Rainfall
2070 mm

Hours of Sunshine
4438

Monthly Radiant Energy
316, 393, 447, 475, -, -, 453, 506, 491, 567, 545, 443 MJ m-2

Total Radiant Energy
4693 MJ m-2 (records for 308 days only)

Humidity
mean max. 96% (July), mean min. 43% (January)

Commodity
vegetables (alliums, tomato, chili, sweet peppers, leafy vegetables, mungbean, soybean)

Discipline
breeding, culture (production), soil management, crop protection (IPM), training and outreach

Staff:
Abbass, D.G.
Ali, Mubarik
Black, L.L.
Burleigh, J.R.
Chadha, M.L.
Chang, L.-C.
Chen, N.-C.
Chen, H.-M.
Chen, J.-T.
Cheong, S.-R.
De Bon, H.
Engle, L.M.
Friedrichsen, J.
Green, S.K.
Hanson, P.
Jaunet, T.X.
Kalb, T.
Kuo, C.G.
Koizumi, M.
Liu, C.-A.
Ma, C.-H.
Nono-Womdim, R.
Oluoch, M.O.
Ope¤a, R.T.
Roan, Y.-C.
Singh, D.P.
Shanmugasundaram, S.
Talekar, N.S.
Tsou, S.C.S.
Wang, J.-F.
Wang, T.-C.
Weinberger, K.

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