Ensuring best practices in the buffalo supply chain in Australia

Published 2024년 9월 2일

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A new research project, funded by the AgriFutures Buffalo Program and the CRCNA, will examine the wild-harvest buffalo supply chain in the Northern Territory, with a focus on identifying sustainable growth opportunities and addressing animal welfare concerns in the industry. Led by The University of Queensland, the project will run until June 2026 and involve a consortium of seven research entities, including the Northern Territory Government and the Northern Territory Buffalo Industry Council. The research aims to develop a sustainable framework for the buffalo industry, balancing economic, environmental, and cultural needs, particularly for Indigenous communities, and will provide recommendations for enhancing animal welfare and health in the supply chain.

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A new research project by AgriFutures Australia and the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) is set to examine the wild-harvest buffalo supply chain in the Northern Territory (NT). The first-of-its-kind project, Supply Chain Best Practice to Improve the Health and Welfare of Free-Range Buffalo Harvest in Arnhem Land – Northern Territory, aims to identify the barriers and potential opportunities to ensure the industry’s sustainable growth. Since the introduction of buffalo to Australia in the 1880s, the industry has developed a free-range sector in the NT and a dairy buffalo sector which operates in most states. Most free-range buffalo in the NT are found in unrestricted herds across Arnhem Land and other areas of Indigenous land, where they have important and often competing economic, environmental and social-cultural impacts on the land and local communities. Despite the steady growth of the meat and dairy buffalo sectors in Australia, there are ...

Source: The Cattle Site