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 [...]
A new project promising to transform the productivity and profitability of the north Australian mango industry, has been unveiled at a meeting of the north’s top producers in the Burdekin today. The three year, $1.18 m research collaboration between Queensland’s Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, two large commercial mango growers [...]
The CRC for Developing Northern Australia’s (CRCNA’s) new project “Exporting perishable commodities to Asia” will aide expansion and development of perishable commodities in Northern Australia. Coordination through the supply chain between growers, processors, marketers and transporters is the main impediment to exporting perishable commodities to Asian markets. This project will [...]