A new blockchain platform has proven to be a game changer for one of Australia’s largest mango producers, providing real-time, secure information from the tree to the supermarket. The digital platform was developed and tested as part of a 2.5-year Smart Supply Chain pilot project co-funded by the Cooperative Research Centre for [...]
Northern Australia’s agricultural supply chains need an urgent shake-up to fully capitalise on the region’s economic development opportunities – a new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) report has found. The Reframing smart supply chains in Northern Australia report found there is significant potential for economic growth in Northern Australia [...]
The CRCNA’s Improving Biosecurity in Northern Australian prawn aquaculture project, completed by researchers from James Cook University’s Aquaculture department, has delivered the most comprehensive multi-pathogen survey ever completed of Australian Prawn Farming. During the past 2 years, the JCU AquaPATH laboratory team completed over 25,000 tests, to international testing standards, to [...]
A new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project hopes a new unique training tool will help drive support for new Aboriginal -based led developments across the Northern Territory. Centrefarm Aboriginal Horticulture Ltd is heading up the $490,000 Co-mapping on Country; Train the Trainer for sustainable development collaboration [...]
A Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia’s (CRCNA) aspirations to establish a commercial Tropical Rock Oyster industry in Northern Australia has taken a step forward today, with more than 30,000 hatchery-grown spat (juvenile oysters) transferred to new trial sites off the Karratha coast, in northern Western Australia. Project partners, [...]