A new Alliance has been forged to develop and strengthen North Queensland’s agricultural and value supply chains to help grow the sector across the north. The North Queensland Agricultural Supply Chain Alliance includes representatives from the CRCNA, Townsville Enterprise, Advance Cairns, Greater Whitsunday Alliance (GW3), Central Queensland University and the [...]
The CRCNA has commissioned the Singapore-based Australia-ASEAN Chamber of Commerce (AustCham ASEAN) to examine the key export opportunities for northern Australian agri-food businesses into ASEAN markets over the next five years. The four-month long project will complement existing CRCNA research by identifying additional markets and commodities in ASEAN which could provide opportunities [...]
The Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) is seeking a suitably qualified organisation, individual or group of organisations to collaborate with the CRCNA in the development of a northern Australian health service delivery situational analysis. The scope of the work will identify key challenges and opportunities facing the [...]
A fresh collaboration hopes to open doors to export more perishable foods from Northern Australia to Asia by air. Stakeholders have decided to initially focus on an initial focus on lychee, mango and avocado crops to create new supply chains, assess new processing technologies and pave the way for another [...]
Forestry industry stakeholders are the central plank of a new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project to identify the growth potential for northern Australia’s forestry and forestry products industry. Speaking in Cairns today Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Senator Matt Canavan announced the $209,300 CRCNA research [...]
A new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project will lay the foundation for a northern Australian rice sector with the potential to produce more than one million tonnes of specialty rice annually. CRCNA Chair Sheriden Morris announced the CRCNA’s latest $505,000 research collaboration with project participants the [...]
Leading Australian aquaculture researchers will team up with key industry players to deliver a vision for a commercially viable aquaculture industry across northern Australia, in the latest Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project announced today. Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Senator Matt Canavan marked the start [...]
A new project promising to boost northern Australian mango exports into China by 200 per cent within five years has been announced by the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) today. The $2.24 million CRCNA research collaboration between Australia’s leading Calypso® mango exporter Perfection Fresh (Perfection), the Queensland [...]