R&D projects
Discover banana levy investments into Banana Fund R&D initiatives
The banana levy has been invested into following Hort Innovation Banana Fund R&D initiatives, together with Australian Government contributions.
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Tropical fruit export strategy (MT17002) (MT17002a)
This investment was tasked with developing individual export strategies for a range of tropical commodities, feeding into an overarching export strategy for Australian tropical fruit.
16 May 2018
Autonomous perception systems for horticulture tree crops (AH11009)
This robotics and mechanisation investment contributed to the development of sensing technologies/algorithms, trialed in autonomous perception ground vehicles (the Shimp and Mantis robots).
11 March 2016
Transformational innovation performance analysis (AI13011)
This project examined the level of innovation in the Australian horticulture industry, and its relationship to productivity.
4 September 2015
National banana bunchy top virus program – Phase 3 – QLD (BA15006) and National banana bunchy top virus program – Phase 3 – NSW (BA15007) (BA15006 and BA15007)
These projects contributed to the control of banana bunchy top disease, with activities designed to protect uninfested areas, remove infestation from farms, and reduce the disease range.
13 December 2018
Australian Horticulture Statistics Handbook 2015-2018 (AH15001)
This across-industry investment is responsible for producing Hort Innovation’s annual Australian Horticulture Statistics Handbook
12 December 2018
The Australian banana industry communications program (BA15005)
This investment was responsible for keeping Australian banana growers and other industry stakeholders informed about key industry issues and the latest R&D in a timely way, from 2016 into 2019.
5 December 2018
National banana development and extension project (BA16007)
This program delivered the outcomes of R&D to the banana industry through industry development officers and the events and resources they produced.
26 June 2020
Banana Industry Congress 2019 (BA17003)
This investment supported the 13th Australian Banana Industry Congress, held from May 22 to 24, 2019 on the Gold Coast
28 June 2019
Banana bunchy top virus control data (BA17001)
This investment was tasked with helping the banana industry contain and further lower the incidence of banana bunchy top disease, and providing the capacity to ensure a faster response time to any new incursions of the virus
22 January 2019
Review of the national biosecurity plan for the banana industry (BA15001)
This investment was responsible for updating the banana industry’s biosecurity plan.
9 August 2021