The ASEAN Food Post-Production Information Exchange Project (APEX) : substantial sums in revenues are lost each year due to losses in post-harvest food production. Better information handling can help to solve this problem
See C06496 for original; Paper presented at the IAALD Regional Conference, Strategic Issues in Agricultural Information; 1988 November; Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, APEX (the ASEAN Post-harvest Food Production Information Exchange Project) was conceived in response to the regional need for a coordinated effort for collection and dissemination of information, as well as the need for document delivery and exchange in post-harvest food production information. APEX is designed to provide food production workers (in ASEAN in particular) information to facilitate their activities. The long-term objective of APEX is to improve post harvest food production, handling, and distribution systems in ASEAN. Its immediate objectives include: establishing a national focal point for literature/information collection and dissemination in each ASEAN country; upgrading the document delivery services; facilitating regional access to international information; encouraging information exchange among the countries of the region; and providing training in information service and library computer applications. (original)
