‘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 [...]
A new blockchain platform has proven to be a game changer for one of Australia’s largest mango producers, providing real-time, secure information from the tree to the supermarket. The digital platform was developed and tested as part of a 2.5-year Smart Supply Chain pilot project co-funded by the Cooperative Research Centre for [...]
A project seeking to revolutionise the Northern Australian mango supply chain is a step closer to delivering for the industry – after securing more cash to scale-up commercial on-farm trials. The Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) collaboration between Manbulloo Limited (Manbulloo), blockchain start-up T-Provenance (T- Prov) and [...]
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 (CRCNA) has announced a “Smart Supply Chains” project which will have major applications across Northern Australia. The massive distances involved in distributing Northern Australian produce to markets elsewhere presents significant challenges in supply chain management, with both growers and consumers in tracking produce and [...]