New project to enhance Australia-China aquaculture

Published 2024년 6월 4일

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Charles Darwin University (CDU) has been awarded $240,000 from the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations 2023-24 grants to spearhead a project aimed at enhancing the quality of Australian seafood and introducing innovative dragon fruit cropping technologies. The initiative will involve over 70 researchers from both Australia and China, focusing on the exchange of agricultural and aquaculture practices. Australian researchers will contribute their sustainability expertise, while Chinese technologies will support the Australian dragon fruit and aquaculture markets. The project aims to improve environmental practices, enhance product traceability, and address common challenges in the aquaculture sector.

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Enhancing the quality of Australian seafood and initiatives to introducing new dragon fruit cropping technologies will be among the activities and knowledge exchanged between Australian and Chinese researchers in a new project led by Charles Darwin University (CDU). CDU has received $240,000 through the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations 2023-24 competitive grants round for the project Advancing Tropical Agriculture Collaboration between Australia and China through Academic Exchanges and Collaborative Initiatives: Towards sustainable tropical primary production with traceable products, which focuses on exchanging techniques and knowledge of each region’s agriculture and aquaculture practices. The project will be headed by CDU and involve leading delegations of about eight Australian researchers to visit Shantou and Hainan, China in 2024 and 2025, as well as facilitating delegations of about eight Chinese researchers to visit northern Australia in 2025 and 2026. ...

Source: Fish Focus