Banana industry benchmarking (BA22009)
This program successfully re-established a confidential benchmarking process for Australian banana growers and generated practical business insights to support farm decision-making.
Completed project
Transformational innovation performance analysis (AI13011)
Publication date: December 14, 2018
Innovation is essential for Australian horticulture to remain competitive and achieve the productivity improvements necessary to survive and grow.
This project involved a survey of innovation and productivity that currently exists across horticultural industry groups. Results from the survey, obtained from 501 growers across horticultural farms in Australia, were analysed and compared with results from other industry sectors.
The researchers found that:
This project was a strategic levy investment in Hort Innovation's across-industry program
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