More than a billion dollars in capital investment could be unlocked for new agricultural development across the Northern Territory if action is taken to de-risk the investment landscape – according to a new report by the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA). The De-risking, brokering and prioritising agricultural [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]