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THE BOTTOM LINE: VG15704
Representatives from 14 vegetable businesses from
Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania participated in a
10-day study tour of New Zealand-based precision
horticultural farms and research sites.
Bringing Australian and New Zealand growers together
to share ideas and to generate new working relationships
within a precision production theme proved extremely
beneficial.
Based on the feedback received after the study tour
was completed, the New Zealand tour reaffirmed the
participants’ commitment to using and optimising
precision farming tools and techniques.
Participants have started to use social media platforms to
keep in touch with each other, which is acknowledged as
excellent business practice.
Understanding the current status of New Zealand precision
agriculture research and adoption in vegetable systems has
increased, and this has led to participants making changes
to the application of precision technologies in their
farming system.
THE BOTTOM LINE: VG15061
Project VG15061 was designed to quantify the economic
impacts of current and projected future scenarios of
changes in vegetable export activity.
There is growing export potential for certain vegetable
types due to opportunities presented by factors such as
Asia’s growing middle class, the increasing demand for
sustainably-produced, safe and clean food, and tariff
reductions from recent Free Trade Agreements with Asian
countries like China, Japan and Korea.
Three scenarios were used to assess the sensitivity
of different levels of export growth on the domestic
vegetable industry: freer trade, increasingly wealthier
Asian consumers and improved supply chain efficiency
in Australia. Freer trade was the least important scenario
modelled, resulting in the smallest annual increase in
demand for Australian levy-paying vegetable exports
($4.8 million per year).
Supply chain efficiencies was most significant, delivering
an annual $9.8 million improvement, and increasing wealth
in Asia was found to have a moderate impact on Australian
vegetable output and exports.
ISSN: 1449 - 1397
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Image credits:
VG15062 – Applied Horticulture Research and Incitec Pivot
VG14048 – Irrigation Australia Limited