Historical document
Australian Pome Fruit Improvement Program (APFIP) certification and evaluation of pome fruit in Australia (AF10000)
Publication date: June 1, 2011
Delivery Partner: Australian Pome Fruit Improvement Program
This is a final research report from Hort Innovation’s historical archives. Please note that as these reports may date back as far as the 1990s, the content and recommendations within them may be superseded by more recent research.
The Australia Pome Fruit Improvement Company Limited (APFIP) provided the Australian apple and pear industries with three main services:
Certification systems help protect the Australian industry from the losses associated with viruses. Viruses of economic significance were widespread in Australian orchards. Using certified propagating material, free from known viruses, had the potential to result in up to 20 per cent increase in orchard productivity.
Growers were then able to access a wide range of new apple and pear varieties ‐ from many different countries. Having access to independent performance data on such varieties was vital in their selection of which new cultivars to plant.
Commercial exploitation of these new varieties required an efficient and effective quarantine system that allows importation as safely and quickly as possible.
A high level summary of APFIP’s activities in these areas were as follows:
AF10000 was a one year project put in place to allow the APFIP program to continue while APAL decided how it wished to go forward with industry services in this area. Highlights during AF10000 were:
This historical project was a strategic levy investment for the apple and pear industry
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