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Discover lychee levy investments into Lychee Fund R&D initiatives

The lychee levy has been invested into following Hort Innovation Lychee Fund R&D initiatives, together with Australian Government contributions.

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Completed project Final Research Report

Category and Consumer Impact Monitor (ST19031)

This investment provided weekly updates on consumer attitudes and behaviours during and beyond COVID-19.

15 June 2020

Completed project Final Research Report

Ex-post impact assessment (MT18011)

Through this project, Hort Innovation engaged independent consultants to evaluate the impact of our R&D investments, providing insights into the type and magnitude of impacts generated across the company’s strategic levy programs.

31 December 2021

Ongoing project

Australian Horticulture Statistics Handbook 2018-19 to 2020-21 (HA18002)

This across-industry investment is responsible for producing Hort Innovation’s annual Australian Horticulture Statistics Handbook.

22 May 2019

Completed project

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

Completed project Final Research Report

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

Completed project

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

Completed project Final Research Report

A multi-target approach to fruitspotting bug (MT10049)

Information on fruitspotting bugs and their management was produced by this investment, which developed the Fruitspotting Bugs 2016 handbook

5 February 2019