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 [...]
Producers in the Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday (MIW) regions will reap the benefits of a new project looking to identify new export market opportunities for existing and new high value agricultural products. The Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) collaboration brings together the Greater Whitsunday Alliance (GW3) and [...]
A new Alliance has been forged to develop and strengthen North Queensland’s agricultural and value supply chains to help grow the sector across the north. The North Queensland Agricultural Supply Chain Alliance includes representatives from the CRCNA, Townsville Enterprise, Advance Cairns, Greater Whitsunday Alliance (GW3), Central Queensland University and the [...]
A fresh collaboration hopes to open doors to export more perishable foods from Northern Australia to Asia by air. Stakeholders have decided to initially focus on an initial focus on lychee, mango and avocado crops to create new supply chains, assess new processing technologies and pave the way for another [...]
Forestry industry stakeholders are the central plank of a new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project to identify the growth potential for northern Australia’s forestry and forestry products industry. Speaking in Cairns today Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Senator Matt Canavan announced the $209,300 CRCNA research [...]
A new project promising to boost northern Australian mango exports into China by 200 per cent within five years has been announced by the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) today. The $2.24 million CRCNA research collaboration between Australia’s leading Calypso® mango exporter Perfection Fresh (Perfection), the Queensland [...]
Work on a new pilot project promising to enhance quality monitoring of northern Australian mangoes and reduce food waste kicked off at a North Queensland mango farm on Saturday. Blockchain experts, Trust Provenance (T-Provenance) have implemented the solution at Manbulloo Limited’s Horseshoe Lagoon property, south of Townsville, trialling their new [...]