The latest trends, opportunities and critical barriers to development across some of northern Australia’s key agricultural sectors will be under the spotlight at next month’s International Tropical Agriculture Conference (TropAg) in Brisbane. Researchers from four of the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) industry sector situational analysis projects will present [...]
A new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) collaboration is set to supercharge the north’s horticultural industry – by encouraging more producers to invest in protected cropping systems. The two-year $443,000 project is an R&D partnership between producers in North Queensland, Carnarvon (WA) and Lake Bennett (NT), industry [...]
A new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project will target new investors interested in tapping into northern Australia’s agricultural opportunities. Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Hon. Senator Matt Canavan said the CRCNA had engaged professional services firm, PwC, to deliver the research, in a project co-designed [...]
More than $4.5 million dollars in investment will support the development of a northern Australian broadacre cropping industry, following a new agreement between the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) and the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) announced today in far north Queensland. Under the agreement, the [...]
Northern Australia is poised to create Australia’s own spice trail with plans to grow a new condiment industry part of a new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project. The $1.2 million spice cropping project will see five crops taken from small to large-scale production within 3 years, [...]
Far North Queensland producers and exporters will reap the benefits of a significant new project to identify export opportunities for existing and potential high value agricultural products. The collaboration between the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA), Advance Cairns and industry stakeholders aims to identify gaps in existing [...]
Northern Australia’s agricultural supply chains and freight networks will be under the spotlight as a new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project looks to re-frame the way we think about how goods are moved around the north and to our Asian customers. The Re-framing Northern Australia Supply Chains [...]
More than $3 billion in unmet global market demand for North Queensland-grown agricultural products and 2,000 new jobs are two key findings of a Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) research collaboration announced today. The 12-month North Queensland Agricultural Market and Supply Chain Study is the first of its type [...]
A new project funded by the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) – and led by QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre – will pave the way for investment in digital inclusion policy, interventions, programs, and communications infrastructure across northern Australia. The project will help improve the profitability and [...]