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The Centre for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries (NAM S&T Centre) is an inter-governmental organisation with a membership of 47 countries spread over Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America. Besides this, 11 S&T agencies and academic / research institutions of Bolivia, Brazil, India, Nigeria and Turkey are the members of the S&T-Industry Network of the Centre. The Centre was set up in 1989 to promote South-South cooperation through mutually beneficial partnerships among scientists and technologists and scientific organisations in developing countries. It implements a variety of programmes including international workshops, meetings, roundtables, training courses and collaborative projects and brings out scientific publications, including a quarterly Newsletter. It is also implementing 8 Fellowship schemes, namely, Joint NAM S&T Centre – ZMT Bremen Fellowship; Joint NAM S&T Centre – ICCBS Fellowship; Joint NAM S&T Centre – DST (South Africa) Training Fellowship on Minerals Processing & Beneficiation; NAM S&T Centre – U2ACN2 Research Associateship in Nanosciences & Nanotechnology; Joint CSIR / CFTRI (Diamond Jubilee) – NAM S&T Centre Fellowship; NAM S&T Centre Research Fellowship; NAM S&T Centre – ACENTDFB Fellowship in Neglected Tropical Diseases and Forensic Biotechnology; NAM S&T Centre - ASRT, Egypt Fellowship Programme. These activities provide, among others, the opportunity for scientist-to-scientist contact and interaction, training and expert assistance, familiarising the scientific community on the latest developments and techniques in the subject areas, and identification of technologies for transfer between member countries. The Centre has so far brought out 79 publications and has organised 113 international workshops and training programmes.

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. 1. Advances of Biotechnology in Cuba/Marisol Romeu Hernández. 2. The Mathematical Language in Biotechnology: Case Study/Mostafa M. Abo Elsoud. 3. Promotion of Biotech Industry in India/Keerti Mishra. 4. The Current Status of Industrial Biotechnology in Nigeria/Deborah Asabe Ashigye. 5. The Use of Biotechnology in Zambia/Lordwell K. Witika and Jonas Mundike. 6. Opportunities of Industrial Biotechnology in the Pharmaceutical and Food and Beverage Industry in Advancement of Zimbabwean Industries: Review/Travers Chirova, Thamari Sengudzwa and Cephas Mawere. 7. Industrial Biotechnology: Then, Now and the Future/Chenjerayi Kashangura. 8. The Application of Biotechnology in Aquaculture Value Addition and Beneficiation: Prospect and Challenges in the Gambia/Bintou Dibba. 9. The Use of an In vitro Derived Seedling in Indonesian Cocoa Replanting Programme/Taryono. 10. Development of an Affordable, Rapid, Sensitive and Specific Field Based PCR Assay for Detection and Quantification of Newcastle Disease (NCD)/Willis A. Adero, K.G Tirumurugaan and G. Dhinakar Raj. 11. Study on the Antifungal Activities of Effective Fungi as a Control of Plant Pathogenic Fungi/Win Min Than, Khaing Nwe Nwe Oo, Nann Miky Moh Moh, Kyi Pyar Win, Ei Mon Myo, Myat Phyu Khine, Ko Ko Lwin, Win Htun Yin and Aye Aye Khai. 12. Commercialization of Bioorganic Fertilizer for Sustainable Agriculture/Buddhi Ratna Khadge. 13. A Review on the Role of Tissue Culture in the Propagation of Planting Materials in Zimbabwe: Sweet Potato/L.G. Muusha and T.O. Nyarumbu and C. Moffat. 14. Engineering Fatty Acid Biosynthesis Pathway in Microbes for Production of Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids/Narendra Kadoo, Smrati Sanghi, Tejas Chirmade, Ashwini Rajwade and Vidya Gupta. 15. Lipase Production Potential of a Locally Isolated Extreme Halotolerant Aspergillus sp. FIMT2 Strain using Agro-industrial Wastes as Substrate/Farizul Hafiz Kasim, Haliru Musa, Ahmad Anas Bin Nagoor Gunny and Mohammad Azmier Ahmad. 16. Sri Lankan Finger Millet (Elucine coracana) Variety ‘Raavana’ as Potential Probiotic Source/D.M.W.D. Divisekera, J.K.R.R. Samarasekera, J. Goonerathne, C. Hettiarachchi and S. Gopalakrishnan. 17. Isolation, Characterization and Molecular Identification of New Sudanese Streptomyces spp. Producing Bioactive Secondary Metabolites/Abdelhalim Abdullahi Hamza Ahmed, Benjamin R. Clark, Cormac D. Murphy and Elsheik A. Elobiedc. 18. Isolation and Evaluation of Streptomyces Species from Harare Agricultural Soils for Production of Vitamin B12/Tapiwashe Claudious Madeya, Eunita Chidziya and Cephas Mawere. 19. Optimization of Bio-Ethanol Production from Barley Waste Using Response Surface Methodology/ S. Manhokwe and T. Chikuru. 20. Synthesis of Hydraulic Brake Fluid from Jatropha Oil/Damascus Masawi, Soloman Manyere and Shelton Magaiza. 21. A Comparative Investigation of the Reduction of Coliform Bacteria in Wastewater by Agaricus bisporus, Plerotus sajor-caju and Plerotus ostreatus/Eunita Chidziya, Marvelous Chikerema and Shumbeyi Muzondo. Index.