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Benchmarking and comparing the productionand regulatory conditions of Aust vegetableproducers with our competitors
The scope of the benchmarking study is specifically concerned with the regulatory regime and the effectiveness of enforcement in the following areas: Primary production … Read more
Developing New Export Vegetables With Emphasis On Burdock, Daikon And Globe Artichoke
The report provides growers with information on opportunties that exist to diversify businesses away from main stream vegetable production. The project investigates optimal conditions for … Read more
Developing Strategies To Stimulate Local Consumption, Export And Import Replacement Of Globe Artichokes
This project identifies barriers to the expansion of local and export opportunities for globe artichokes, development of protocol for frozen product, increase understanding of consumer … Read more
Generation of residue and crop safety data for pesticide minor-use permit applications in vegetable crops 2012 – CPR
Growers of some horticultural crops are left exposed to greater production risk and can incur significant crop losses when pesticides are not registered for use … Read more
Less Energy More Profit article
Infotech Research conducted a series of 22 energy audits of levy paying vegetable growers in 2014, as part of a project with Horticulture Innovation Australia … Read more
Review of regulatory export barriers for Australian vegetable growers
The more formal definition of red-tape (relating to paperwork and other administrative requirements), while a focus of this project, was not considered to be the … Read more
Women’s Grower Study Tour 2014-2016
The key objective of the mission was to provide an opportunity for leading women in the Australian vegetable industry to gain a unique insight into … Read more
A Crop Management Service To Promote New Technology For Sweet Corn In Central West NSW
This project addresses the crop management service (SCMS) that is based on new technologies to sweet corn growers in the Central West of NSW, ultimately … Read more
Breeding Disease And Insect Resistant Supersweet Corn
The Australian sweetcorn industry is udnergoing a phase of significant expansion. From 1997 to 2001, population increased by 70% from 70,000 tonnes to 120,000 tonnes … Read more
Breeding For Sweetness And Tenderness In Tropical Supersweet Corn
This project aimed to overcome disease and insect problems by selecting for sweetness and tenderness traits in tropical supersweet germplasm, thus allowing for the expansion … Read more
Climate Change Managing Variability and Carbon
A fact sheet outlining the contribution of horticulture to climate change, the impact of climate change on horticulture and ways in which farmers can reduce … Read more
Commodity growing guides – sweet corn
Successful sweet corn production relies on management planning well in advance of sowing, thorough research to identify market requirements, impediments to production, and especially product … Read more