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Maize production Kununurra WA
  • 15 March 202210 September 2024
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Northern integrated farming systems sees ground breaking investment from CRCNA

The Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) has opened its largest single funding round calling for new ideas to grow the North’s cotton, grain and cattle sector. The multimillion-dollar open funding call is seeking project proposals to develop an integrated agricultural system, bolstering productivity across the cropping and [...]

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Kalonji seeds also known as nigella seeds
  • 21 February 202210 September 2024
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First spice orders replace imported kalonji

The burgeoning northern Australian spice industry has moved from concept to impact with the first orders secured to replace 100 tonnes of imported kalonji seed. Melbourne firm Hab Shifa imports up to 800t a year of kalonji seed – also known as nigella – for sale as a health ingredient [...]

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  • 8 November 202110 September 2024
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New project to unlock softwood income stream for beef graziers

Evaluating an opportunity that has the potential to meet growing demand for softwood timber products plus create an additional income stream for Northern Australia’s graziers is the focus of a new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) research collaboration. The three-year Silvopastoral trials for commercial pine systems in North [...]

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  • 21 October 202110 September 2024
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Enhancing water efficiency in the Top End

NT Farmers Association, in collaboration with the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) are leading a three year project to enhance water sustainability in the Top End.  The project will utilise state of the art technology to improve water efficiency and reduce the pressure on the region’s aquafers. [...]

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  • 15 September 202110 September 2024
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Enhancing the Northern Territory’s supply chains

NT Farmers and the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) are driving the development of the north by undertaking a research project into supply chains. The project will provide a blueprint for government and industry on how supply chains can support the development of the Territory’s agricultural export [...]

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  • 22 July 202110 September 2024
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New project to evaluate resilience & profitability of high-density orchards

Across Northern Australia traditional low-density horticultural production systems continue to be highly susceptible to tropical cyclones leading to not only stagnated sectoral growth but missed economic opportunities. As part of  a new CRCNA research collaboration,  a range of high-density production systems and trellis planting systems will be assessed for not only their cyclone resilience but also their production capacity and profitability. Colloquially termed the ‘next generation [...]

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  • 28 June 202110 September 2024
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Research plants seeds for Mackay Isaac Whitsunday exports

Greater Whitsunday Alliance (GW3) will lead research to identify key agricultural products for export from the Mackay Issac Whitsunday region through project funding from the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA). Greater Whitsunday Alliance chief executive officer Ms Kylie Porter said the research will identify key Mackay Isaac [...]

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Dr Geoff Dickinson standing next to a mango tree
  • 15 May 202110 September 2024
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Mango industry aims high with high-density plantings

‘Transforming orchards to high-density plantings produces higher yields and income…’ That’s the advice from the Transforming Mango Futures project team which spent three years studying grower and experimental mango orchards, examining whether high-density orchards would produce more fruit, more economically, than low-density plantings. The project’s final economic case study has [...]

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  • 14 May 202110 September 2024
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The future of food on show in the Top End

Darwin’s upcoming Food Futures event will showcase the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia’s (CRCNA’s) latest research collaborations in food and fibre production – from high density-grown mangoes, new broadacre crop and cotton trials to native bush food initiatives. Delegates attending the three-day conference will hear from CRCNA project [...]

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