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Fruit Growers Tasmania is working with government and industry stakeholders to strengthen the development of Tasmania's fruit industry.
Tasmanian Fruit Industry Census 2024/25
Lead delivery provider: Fruit Growers Tasmania
Fruit Growers Tasmania has identified issues in the reliability and availability of the current statistical information about Tasmania's fruit industry.
To address this information, Fruit Growers Tasmania is undertaking an industry census to build an accurate understanding of the size of the fruit industry in Tasmania.
Having an accurate picture of the size of the industry:
- allows individual growers to understand the total nature of the industry sector(s) and where they are situated
- helps businesses make informed investment decisions,
- helps the industry manage current and future growth, and
- assists Fruit Growers Tasmania to communicate to government the required future policy settings to support the sustainable viability of the industry and likely impacts of policy changes.
This census seeks to address these gaps by providing whole-of-industry statistics to assist with industry decision making.
Future Fruit Development Program
Lead delivery provider: Fruit Growers Tasmania
Funded by the Tasmanian Government, this project supports the industry to be innovative, competitive and responsive to change.
The outcomes of this project are to:
- support innovation and response to change
- increase efficiency and competitiveness of growers through adoption of technology and practice change
MT22010: Facilitating the development of the Australian Berry Industries - Tasmanian and Rubus Focus
Lead delivery provider: Berries Australia
This multi-industry project is tasked with supporting Australian berry growers in adopting improved practices on-farm and keeping up to date with the latest industry news, information, resources and technologies.
The project delivers a nationally coordinated but locally implemented program which employs several industry development officers who provide specialist skills and knowledge. The role of the industry development officers is a broad one, with all activities geared towards improving the circulation and uptake of information with the industry.
CY22002: Extension and communication for the Australian cherry industry
Lead delivery provider: New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI)
This project improves the exchange of information within the cherry industry to increase efficiency and develop resilience by adopting improved practices and technologies.
The project team will ensure cherry growers and other industry stakeholders are better informed through an increase in the level of communication and information activities. These activities will create a more robust industry that will be able to expand and improve market access to both existing and future international markets to maximise export growth with the increase in global production.
Reuse and recycling of hydroponic substrate to enable the growth of high-value agricultural production in Tasmania
Lead delivery provider: Fruit Growers Tasmania
Growers have experienced significant challenges with coir costs and freight supplies, prompting the industry to look at how it can reuse used coir substrate. Recent innovations in sterilisation methods mean that spent coir can now feasibly be cleaned of pests and diseases on site, and combined with additional substrate materials sourced locally to provide an improved planting medium.
This project will develop commercial recycled coir substrate blends and sterilisation processes useable by Tasmanian businesses, and trial the these blends under commercial conditions to determine their effects on plant health, productivity and business performance.