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Innovative science is key in the fight against fruit fly
Media ReleaseRESEARCHERS ARE investigating how to implement sex selection in fruit flies in a bid to trump up control and eradication measures for the Australian horticulture industry’s most costly pest. In what has been referred to as “genetic
23 May 2019
Improving plant industry access to new genetics through faster and more accurate diagnostics using next generation sequencing (MT18005)
This investment was tasked with supporting the adoption of ‘next generation sequencing’ in the screening of imported horticultural plant material in post-entry quarantine facilities.
23 August 2023
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
Horticulture leads Australian agriculture in value and on-farm efficiency
Media ReleaseA RECENT analysis of Australian agricultural industries has put horticulture at the forefront in sustainable practices. A review of the latest data[i] from the Australian Bureau of Statistics identified the Australian horticulture
22 May 2019
Table Grape Fund October 2018
This Hort Innovation Table Grape Fund marketing snapshot is from October 2018
2 May 2019
Table grape growers using inventiveness to fight fruit fly
Media ReleaseCaption: Peter Argiro’s self-rigged spray unit for fighting fruit fly on his Merbein table grape property. A TABLE GRAPE grower from Sunraysia has built a new rig that applies bait spray for fruit fly in an innovative attempt to reduce
23 April 2019
Research initiative ramps up investments to secure plant biosecurity
Media ReleaseMORE THAN $27 million has been invested into research, development and extension projects through the Plant Biosecurity Research Initiative and partners since its inception just 18 months ago. The initiative was developed to encourage
26 March 2019
The 2017/18 Hort Stats Handbook released
Media ReleaseTHE MOST comprehensive and contemporary data available on all sectors of the Australian horticulture industry is now available through the release of the 2017/18 Horticulture Statistics Handbook. Released by Hort Innovation, the
11 March 2019
Australia and Vietnam strengthen trade ties through table grapes
Media ReleaseAS THE Australian table grape export season commences, Australian growers head to Vietnam to boost trade relations. Three key growers from the Sunraysia region, which is responsible for around 99 per cent of table grape exports,
27 February 2019
Hort funded Fellowships now open for application
Media ReleaseAPPLICATIONS are now open for three Hort Innovation funded Churchill Fellowships that will enable recipients to travel the world for 4 to 8 weeks to access industry related knowledge not readily available in Australia. Jointly funded
11 February 2019