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 [...]
Northern Australian farmers have the opportunity to test production of a suite of high-value spice crops, which have demonstrated their suitability in a series of small scale trials conducted by CQUniversity. Kalonji (Nigella sativa) and fennel recorded strong yield and quality levels in small plot trials conducted in the winter of [...]
Northern Australian farmers have the opportunity to test the suitability of high-value black sesame varieties in their cropping rotations by participating in this summer’s field trials being conducted by CQUniversity. Details of how and why producers from across the Top End should get involved will be presented at a webinar [...]
The results are in and the top-performing black sesame varieties in a range of Northern Australian conditions have been identified, laying an important foundation stone in the quest to build a new high-value cropping industry. As part of a CRC for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project, CQUniversity assessed the performance [...]
Demand for high-value spice crops is on the rise around the world, giving confidence to proponents of establishing a new export-focused industry in northern Australia. The CRCNA’s Spicing Up the North research project has released four new commodity market assessments for caraway, kalonji, cumin and fennel which show the market price for some of these condiments is up [...]
Central Queensland farmers have the opportunity to inspect the performance of high-value spice crops in broadacre growing conditions at a field day to be held outside of Rockhampton on February 19. The field day and crop inspection forms part of a three-year project being led by CQUniversity and Agriventis Technologies, [...]
Northern Australia is poised to create Australia’s own spice trail with plans to grow a new condiment industry part of a new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project. The $1.2 million spice cropping project will see five crops taken from small to large-scale production within 3 years, [...]