Indigenous communities can now assess the quality and sweetness of their wild-harvested native bush fruits in the field, rather than sending samples off to food science laboratories. A prototype digital and portable bush fruits chemistry toolkit has been developed by University of Queensland researchers for communities to use on site, [...]
By Zara Boshier |Master of Agricultural Science, University of Queensland Project: Exploring the Applications of NIR Spectroscopy in an Indigenous-led Wild Harvested Kakadu Plum Value Chain Zara recently travelled to Darwin as part of the CRCNA’s Improving the efficiency of Kakadu Plum/ Gubinge value chains to grow a robust and [...]
A new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project hopes a new unique training tool will help drive support for new Aboriginal -based led developments across the Northern Territory. Centrefarm Aboriginal Horticulture Ltd is heading up the $490,000 Co-mapping on Country; Train the Trainer for sustainable development collaboration [...]
Over the past two months, Fisheries Division staff from the NT Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade, have travelled to Groote Eylandt and South Goulburn Island to assist with the construction of oyster trial longlines and data collection for the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) tropical oyster [...]
A Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project team looking to grow the north’s Tropical Rock Oyster industry have successfully bred a new Black Lip Rock Oyster for the first time at the Western Australian government’s Hillarys marine shellfish hatchery. It’s an important achievement for the team of [...]
A new project looking to grow northern Australia’s Tropical Rock Oyster industry has been unveiled at the Darwin Aquaculture Centre today. Hon. Sen. Matt Canavan looking at oyster larvae at the Darwin Aquaculture Centre. The 3-year, $4.1 million project brings together a consortium of project participants including the Northern Territory [...]