The ACIAR Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme for UNITECH was initiated in March 2005. Eighteen annual scholarships will be awarded to 12-15 students between 2005 and 2008 for research in a wide range of topics - crop physiology and agronomy of sweet potato, taro, peanut and cocoa, plant pathology, entomology, fish and poultry nutrition, animal health, agricultural engineering and extension - with most continuing on from Postgraduate Diploma to Masters of Philosophy. This small project activity will enable the purchase of a LECO carbon and nitrogen analyser (to measure these two important elements) and other equipment to give a laboratory at Unitech comprehensive capability for the analysis of macro- and micro-elements in plant, animal, soil and water samples.