R&D projects
Discover lychee levy investments into Lychee Fund R&D initiatives
The lychee levy has been invested into following Hort Innovation Lychee 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.
21-29 of 29 results
Adaptive area-wide management of Queensland fruit fly using the sterile insect technique: Guidelines for efficient and effective pest suppression and stakeholder adoption (ST15014 and ST15015)
This grant-funded project investigated, trialled and finalised guidelines and resources for the area-wide management of Queensland fruit fly.
3 July 2020
Category and Consumer Impact Monitor (ST19031)
This investment provided weekly updates on consumer attitudes and behaviours during and beyond COVID-19.
15 June 2020
Strategic Agrichemical Review Process (SARP) – Updates (MT19008)
This short investment facilitated a 2020 Strategic Agrichemical Review Process (SARP) for several horticultural industries
29 January 2021
Ex-post impact assessment (MT18011)
Through this project, Hort Innovation engaged independent consultants to evaluate the impact of our R&D investments, providing insights into the type and magnitude of impacts generated across the company’s strategic levy programs.
31 December 2021
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
Autonomous perception systems for horticulture tree crops (AH11009)
This robotics and mechanisation investment contributed to the development of sensing technologies/algorithms, trialed in autonomous perception ground vehicles (the Shimp and Mantis robots).
11 March 2016
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
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
A multi-target approach to fruitspotting bug (MT10049)
Information on fruitspotting bugs and their management was produced by this investment, which developed the Fruitspotting Bugs 2016 handbook
5 February 2019