Investment analysis
As seen on the Fund management page, investments specific to the Hort Innovation Summerfruit Fund are guided by the summerfruit Strategic Investment Plan (SIP). The SIP features priority outcome areas that have been identified and agreed upon by the industry, and Hort Innovation works to invest in R&D and marketing initiatives that are aligned to these.
In the below interactive chart, you can see the most up-to-date information on how project investment expenditure in the Summerfruit Fund is aligned to the SIP outcomes. This currently reflects project investment across the life of the SIP to date, from July 2016 to June 2019.
How investment expenditure aligns to Strategic Investment Plan outcomes
How specific projects align to Strategic Investment Plan outcomes
Click on the below panels to see which projects in the Summerfruit Fund align to which SIP outcomes. Because some projects address more than one SIP outcome, they may be listed more than once.
Industry has developed a diversified export market portfolio to absorb growing production volumes
Ongoing and completed investments
- Now in Season! marketing project – 2016 (MT15501)
- Taste Australia retail program (Marketing) (MT17020)
- Summerfruit Export Strategy (SF17001)
- Improving market access to China for Australian summerfruit (SF14000)
- Asia Fruit Logistica 2016/17 (AM16002)
- China Fruit & Vegetable Fair 2016/17 (AM16003)
- World of Perishables 2016/17 (AM16004)
- Asia Fruit Logistica 2017 (AM16007)
- China Fruit & Vegetable Fair (AM16010)
- Asia Fruit Logistica 2018 (AM17010)
- Understanding the purchase behaviour of fresh produce consumers (MT13061)
- Export – import market intelligence project 2014-2016 (MT14006)
- Australia Fresh – Core export market development program 2014-2017 (MT14013)
- Trade facilitation (MT15029)
- Horticultural trade data 2017-2019 (MT16010)
- Horticulture trade intelligence reporting 2017-2019 (MT16011)
- World of Perishables (Taste Australia attendance) (MT17010)
- China Fruit & Vegetable Fair 2017 (Taste Australia attendance) (MT17011)
- China market readiness and entry (SF16000)
- Summerfruit China export facilitation (SF17000)
- SPLAT cue-lure based management of Queensland fruit fly (MT12001)
- National honey bee pest surveillance program (MT12011)
- Area-wide integrated pest management using the sterile insect technique to control the Queensland fruit fly – SITplus (MT13040)
- Rootstock and training system to optimise stone fruit bearing and growth (SF13001)
- Comparing stonefruit ripening, quality and volatile composition (SF15001)
The Hort Innovation Summerfruit Fund contributes to marketing-related projects and activities in this outcome. For information and updates on marketing visit the fund's grower pages.
The value of fruit sold on the domestic market is increased to restore grower margins
Ongoing and completed investments
- Consumer behavioural and retail data for fresh produce (MT17015)
- Comparing stonefruit ripening, quality and volatile composition (SF15001)
- Summerfruit consumer research (SF17516)
- Consumer behavioural and retail data for fresh produce (MT17015)
The Hort Innovation Summerfruit Fund contributes to marketing-related projects and activities in this outcome. For information and updates on marketing visit the fund's grower pages.
Costs have reduced at every level of the supply chain to grow industry profitability
Ongoing and completed investments
- Developing a national systems approach for meeting biosecurity requirements to access key Asian markets (AM17001)
- Port Augusta Qfly SIT factory pilot operation (SITplus) (FF18003)
- National honey bee pest surveillance program (MT12011)
- SITplus: Developing and optimising production of a male-only, temperature-sensitive-lethal, strain of Qfly, B. tryoni (MT13059)
- Essential market access data packages (MT14052)
- Improving the biosecurity preparedness of Australian horticulture for the exotic spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) (MT17005)
- Xylella coordinator (MT17006)
- Minor use coordinator (MT17007)
- Generation of data for pesticide permit applications in horticulture crops 2019/20 (MT18018)
- Minor use permits for the summerfruit industry (SF10024)
- Summerfruit industry minor use program (SF16001)
- National biosecurity plan for the summerfruit industry (SF17005)
- Experimental summerfruit orchard – phase II (SF17006)
- Low-dose methyl bromide fumigation of plums (SF18000)
- Proposed AgVet collaborative forum plant industry investment (ST16008)
- Increased stone fruit profitability by consistently meeting market expectations (SF12003)
- Stone fruit communications project (SF12009)
- Rootstock and training system to optimise stone fruit bearing and growth (SF13001)
- Australian Stonefruit Grower magazine 2016 (SF15003)
- Summerfruit communications strategy development (SF17003)
An industry culture of continuous improvement has been embedded to support long-term economic sustainability
Ongoing and completed investments
Expenditure on projects classified as 'enabler' support the broader delivery of the industry’s project investments. Examples of enabler projects include annual reporting and monitoring and evaluation capacity.
More information
The Summerfruit Fund has a dedicated Relationship Manager, details below, who would be more than happy to answer your questions or discuss in more detail the information presented on this page, investments in the Summerfruit Fund and how the investments align with the SIP.
