AgriFutures chair calls for innovation lift to lock in industry growth


David Allen
Reporter

Australia’s agricultural innovation pipeline must be overhauled to meet government and industry growth ambitions, with research more closely tied to real-world adoption.

That’s according to Mick Veitch, the chair of peak body AgriFutures Australia, who has called for the farming sector’s R&D and startup activities to be better directed towards scalable on-farm technologies.

The former NSW shadow minister for primary industries said meeting the federal government’s target of growing agriculture …

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