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Historical document
Horticultural value chain analysis (HG03071)
Publication date: October 1, 2004
Delivery Partner: Growcom
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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Please note that as these reports may date back as far as the 1990s, the content and recommendations within them may be superseded by more recent research.
In June 2004, Queensland Fruit & Vegetable Growers Ltd (now trading as Growcom) and Hort Innovation (Horticulture Australia Limited) retained the services of CDI Pinnacle Management to undertake a research and policy development project pertaining to the Queensland horticultural value chain.
In broad terms the project sought to:
A grower survey was conducted in order to evaluate what were the business practices engaged in by producers with others in the chain at the time, issues associated with these relationships and how in the opinion of producers others: may have been able to assist them become better or more effective chain 'performers'.
These findings were 'benchmarked' with research undertaken about how international value chains are performing and secondarily with how others in the value chain within Australia viewed the production sector.
From these "three angles" a series of recommendations were developed about how the production sector of Queensland (and Australian) horticulture may have been provided with a framework to develop the skills, experience, ,confidence and structures necessary to become:
This historical project was a strategic investment funded by Hort Innovation