Completed project
Attracting and retaining young professionals in horticulture (MT11006)
Publication date: February 2, 2015
Delivery Partner: University of Tasmania
The Primary Industry Centre for Science Education (PICSE) was established to attract an increased supply of good quality young people into science-based primary industries, through activities in schools and early university.
PICSE is a national collaboration between universities, regional primary industries, national R&D corporations, national agribusiness, regional research institutes, local community organisations, schools and state government departments.
This project, which ran from 2013 to 2014, focussed on innovation in southern Australia by developing and strengthening an almond-industry-focused work program as well as a component in southern Queensland carrying out the same work with the banana industry.
The core activities of the PICSE program were…
Through the enhanced links with a wide variety of horticulture industry partners, the Centre’s activities ensured that students and teachers were exposed to a variety of R&D technologies within agriculture.
This multi-industry project was a strategic levy investment in the Hort Innovation Almond and Banana Funds
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