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Increasing industry resilience and sustainability

Themes of the program include:

Decision-making using new technologies

  • Establishing baselines for input use and measuring progress
  • Understanding the biophysical requirements of export markets

Reimagining input delivery systems

  • Improved assessment for nutrition and soil constraints, and optimising fertiliser use
  • Improved risk, incidence and damage assessment of weeds, pests and diseases, and management strategies, thereby optimising the use of sprays and developing alternatives

Crop performance

  • Increasing crop performance through breeding new crops, agronomy and systems
  • Increasing soil performance by increasing beneficial microbes, worms, rhizobia and insects

Sub-programs are in development that address biological nitrogen, grains and pasture legumes; low-input cropping to manage weeds, pests and diseases using new technologies; and improving productivity through water and nutrient-use efficiency of soil and crops.

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