The largest Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) research collaboration to date, could deliver a boon for new broadacre cropping developments across the Northern Territory. The two-year, $2.1 million potential for broadacre cropping in the Northern Territory project is being co-funded by the CRCNA, the Grains Research and Development Corporation [...]
Come July this year our Northern Territory and Queensland project managers will swap jobs, with Kristin Nunn (Qld) moving to the Territory and Sally Leigo (NT) heading to Townsville to join the team in the CRCNA head office. The change has been prompted by Kristin’s family relocating to Darwin. Kristin [...]
The Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) has endorsed the appointment of Mr Ronald (Ricky) Archer as a Director of the Board. Ricky Archer is a Djungan man from the Western Tablelands region of North Queensland and is currently the CEO of the North Australia Indigenous Land Sea Management [...]
A new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) study has found the Mackay, Isaac, Whitsunday region is poised to take advantage of new agricultural markets while continuing to grow existing and established sectors across the region. The Mackay Isaac Whitsunday regional Agribusiness supply chains report is the result [...]
Northern Australia’s key agriculture and health service delivery sectors are under the spotlight in a new discussion paper published by the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) today. The paper titled Securing outcomes and measuring progress: a preliminary report into agricultural development and tropical health servicing in Northern Australia is [...]
The future of the Northern Australian aquaculture industry will be up for discussion when more than 70 industry leaders and representatives meet in Central Queensland this week to discuss the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia’s (CRCNA) Northern Australia aquaculture industry situational analysis study. The project, led by James [...]
Central Queensland farmers have the opportunity to inspect the performance of high-value spice crops in broadacre growing conditions at a field day to be held outside of Rockhampton on February 19. The field day and crop inspection forms part of a three-year project being led by CQUniversity and Agriventis Technologies, [...]
A new research collaboration between the Northern Territory Government and the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) will explore the key policy and regulatory challenges impacting new agricultural development across the Territory. The 6-month project will draw on the experiences and feedback from key stakeholders across the Top [...]
The project team working on the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia’s (CRCNA) Northern Australia aquaculture industry situational analysis study will discuss the project’s findings at a workshop in Rockhampton early next year. The February workshop titled, ‘Aquaculture opportunities in Northern Australia: solutions and strategies’ will bring together key [...]