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, [...]
Over the past two months, Fisheries Division staff from the NT Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade, have travelled to Groote Eylandt and South Goulburn Island to assist with the construction of oyster trial longlines and data collection for the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) tropical oyster [...]
More than 100 growers and agronomists will see first-hand what a successful cropping trial looks like, when a Far North Queensland field day gets underway this week. The developing an oilseed industry for Northern Australia project is one of three Queensland cropping projects with co-investment from the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing [...]
Northern Australian farmers have the opportunity to test the suitability of high-value black sesame varieties in their cropping rotations by participating in this summer’s field trials being conducted by CQUniversity. Details of how and why producers from across the Top End should get involved will be presented at a webinar [...]
The Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) is on the hunt for the next suite of high-impact research proposals to develop Northern Australia as the organisation opens its latest competitive EOI funding round today. Industry organisations, researchers and research institutes, SMEs and community sectors are encouraged to submit [...]
The results are in and the top-performing black sesame varieties in a range of Northern Australian conditions have been identified, laying an important foundation stone in the quest to build a new high-value cropping industry. As part of a CRC for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project, CQUniversity assessed the performance [...]
Researchers working on a comprehensive assessment of health service delivery across Northern Australia will discuss their report outcomes and recommendations during a live webinar event on Monday 10th August 2020. The Northern Australia health service delivery situational analysis report is the first pan-northern assessment of issues and priorities for health service delivery. The [...]
The export value of Far North Queensland’s key food products through Cairns international airport could double to more than $120 million within the next decade, according to a new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) and Advance Cairns report published today. The study highlighted seafood, horticultural tree crops, vegetables and beef cattle [...]
Northern Australian aquaculture is set to increase its production five-fold to exceed $1.34 billion in value and produce more than five times its current volume of fish, prawns and other seafood products within the next decade – according to a new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) report [...]
