Farmers are urging an Albanese government in the search of better R&D outcomes not to tinker with their 30-year-old model of public-private co-investment in agricultural innovation and instead address more fundamental issues.
The sector’s peak body says the model continues to deliver but faces new threats from falling government investment in agricultural R&D and a retreat by universities and the CSIRO from the work.
The National Farmers Federation says the public investment drop is now a “key concern” for the sector and has asked the Strategic Examination of R&D to address it and incentivise research partners to return.
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