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Discover avocado levy investments into Avocado Fund R&D initiatives

The avocado levy has been invested into following Hort Innovation Avocado Fund R&D initiatives, together with Australian Government contributions.

Discover the projects that you want to see by refining the list by ongoing, completed, and historical R&D projects as well as projects by R&D portfolio type. You can also filter the projects by areas of extension and communications, international trade, and data and insights.

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Ongoing project

Australian Horticulture Statistics Handbook 2018-19 to 2020-21 (HA18002)

This across-industry investment is responsible for producing Hort Innovation’s annual Australian Horticulture Statistics Handbook.

22 May 2019

Completed project Final Research Report

Transformational innovation performance analysis (AI13011)

This project examined the level of innovation in the Australian horticulture industry, and its relationship to productivity.

4 September 2015

Completed project

Australian Horticulture Statistics Handbook 2015-2018 (AH15001)

This across-industry investment is responsible for producing Hort Innovation’s annual Australian Horticulture Statistics Handbook

12 December 2018

Completed project Final Research Report

Australian avocado benchmarking program development rounds II and III (AV13003)

This investment continued avocado industry benchmarking, enabling growers to identify and strive for best practice in production, packing and marketing.

18 September 2017

Completed project Final Research Report

Coordination of data management and avocado quality improvement and extension program (AV12012)

This investment helped run the avocado industry's Qualicado program while contributing to improves Infocado and OrchardInfo programs.

21 June 2016

Completed project Final Research Report

Data collection to facilitate supply chain transparency (AV12007)

This project supported the Infocado system for monitoring and forecasting volumes of avocados sold, adding price reporting to the data.

22 January 2016

Completed project Final Research Report

Avocado industry fruit quality benchmarking (AV11015)

Avocado quality benchmarking data and insights were produced by this project, forming the basis of the Qualicado program between 2012 and 2016.

30 January 2015