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3 KEY issues on the sustainability of WA’s vegetable growing businesses include farm biosecurity, water and nutrition management and food safety/quality assurance management.
VegNET WA Strategy
A roadmap for enhancing WA vegetable growing businesses
Working closely with growers and related stakeholders.
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s part of the VegNET Western Australia (WA) five-year strategy, the regional development officers will undertake an innovation broker role of sorts.
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This will allow us to work closely with growers and related stakeholders, to create value by translating innovation into adoptable field practices. ‘Growers First’ is the first pillar of our strategy and we’ve prioritised the way we work side-by-side with our grower members and stakeholders to tackle the big challenges facing the industry.
Identified challenges Through vegetablesWA’s extension program consultations (funded by HAL, HIA and APC VPC including VegNET Phase 1) with WA vegetable growers and relevant stakeholders over the past eight years, the priority of regional issues that have been identified are shown in Table 1.
