Establishment of an AgTech Advisory Group, demonstration farms and development of an AgTech Strategic Plan for South Australia.
Objective: Potential annual agricultural production increase of $1.8 billion by 2025.
$14 million investment (split 50:50 between Australian and South Australian governments) in infrastructure to support Thomas Foods International’s investment to rebuild a state of the art meat processing facility at Murray Bridge and facilitating new investments, such as Pirie Meats in the Mid North.
Objective: New meat processing facility will employ up to 2,000 staff and will use higher productivity freight vehicles to serve the site’s transport requirements.
$1.2 million over three years to undertake advanced breeding and food technology to expand pulse breeding to increase South Australia’s share of growth in the global pulse market.
Objective: Additional $40 million per year in farm gate production and a contribution of $17 million to GSP.
$1.8 million over four years to undertake advanced breeding based on quality traits to increase the value of the oat industry in South Australia.
Objective: Increase annual value of farm gate production (from $12 million, 5 year average) and annual exports of grain products (from $8.6 million, 5 year average).
Expansion of aquaculture zones on the Eyre Peninsula by releasing more than 6,500 hectares of unallocated water for aquaculture production.
Objective: Increased aquaculture investment and production.
Research and development to test initial production systems and enable research for seaweed as a feed supplement to convert biological methane production into meat and milk production, thus reducing cattle emissions, creating new export opportunities to foreign markets with livestock emission limits.
Objective: Development of a new seaweed industry in South Australia.
$150 million over ten years to support regional South Australia as part of the Recharging Our Regions policy.
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Development of a collaborative industry government strategy to explore large scale processing and production of seaweed-based feed supplements opportunities.
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Opportunity: Improving the long-term viability of the dairy industry through an increase of 200 million litres of milk per year.
Action: Investment in increased productivity through processing improvements, premiumisation and developing value added export products.
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