The Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) has officially opened its Northern Territory office at an event in Darwin today. Although the office has been operating since CRCNA Project Manager Sally Leigo joined the team in November 2017, today was an opportunity for key stakeholders to come together [...]
Northern Australia’s Kakadu Plum/ Gubinge (Terminalia ferdinandiana) industry is poised to secure a slice of the $US130 billion functional foods market, thanks to a new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project launched at Darwin’s Parliament House today. The three-year, $2.2 million project brings together researchers from the [...]
More than $4.6 million dollars will help fund innovative research projects across Northern Australia as part of the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia’s (CRCNA) latest funding round announced today. Expressions of interest (EOI) for the CRCNA’s funding call opened today and will close at 5pm AEST on Friday 7 [...]
Biosecurity across Northern Australia’s prawn aquaculture industry will be under the microscope in the latest Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project announced today. Researchers from James Cook University (JCU) and industry partner the Australian Prawn Farmers’ Association (APFA) will conduct one of the most comprehensive audits of [...]
The CRC for Developing Northern Australia’s (CRCNA’s) new project “Exporting perishable commodities to Asia” will aide expansion and development of perishable commodities in Northern Australia. Coordination through the supply chain between growers, processors, marketers and transporters is the main impediment to exporting perishable commodities to Asian markets. This project will [...]
Senator for Queensland Ian Macdonald, the CRC for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) and Townsville Enterprise Limited launched the “North Queensland agricultural market and supply chain study” today. Townsville Enterprise Limited and the North Queensland Regional Organisation of Councils have identified the need for collective industry action to transform North Queensland’s [...]
The Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) is seeking suitable companies or consortiums to perform an industry baseline and gap analysis of the northern beef industry. The purpose of the analysis is to define the current state of the industry and determine where the northern beef industry specifically [...]
The CRC for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) has announced the “Cherabin aquaculture production” project which will invigorate aquaculture opportunities in Northern Australia. The industry-led project is a collaboration between North Regional TAFE’s Broome Aquaculture Centre (BAC) and the Ribinyung Dawang Aboriginal Corporation (RDAC) and will develop an Indigenous cherabin business [...]
The CRC for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) has announced a “Smart Supply Chains” project which will have major applications across Northern Australia. The massive distances involved in distributing Northern Australian produce to markets elsewhere presents significant challenges in supply chain management, with both growers and consumers in tracking produce and [...]