Completed project
Nursery industry statistics 2020-21 to 2024-25 (NY21000)
This investment provided the Australian nursery industry with reliable information on production, employment, business performance, market channels and industry trends.
Historical document
Horticulture balanced scorecard - economic assessment (AH09029)
Publication date: July 1, 2010
Delivery Partner: Access Economics
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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Please note that as these reports may date back as far as the 1990s, the content and recommendations within them may be superseded by more recent research.
Hort Innovation (which was then Horticulture Australia Limited) commissioned Access Economics to undertake research to produce a Balanced Scorecard that compared the performance of the Australian horticultural industry against other agricultural industries across a range of economic, environmental and social parameters.
There was a growing awareness of the increasing competitiveness of the environment in which the national horticultural industry operated. Hence, the need to monitor and gauge the impact and return from industry activities and to rate both impact and return across subject areas and against other agricultural areas had increased. Having a tool such as the Balanced Scorecard helped the then Horticulture Australia Limited to better promote the Australian horticultural industry, increase public awareness, be prepared for future challenge and secure continuous support through Government.
The report was written as an explanatory note to the Balanced Scorecard, which was considered to be the main output. It outlined:
This historical project was a strategic investment funded by Hort Innovation