The GRDC will contribute an additional $6 million to the Centre for Crop and Disease Management (CCDM) each year until 2022.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Barnaby Joyce, said there has never been a more crucial time to back crop research.
“This funding will allow the Centre to continue its work for improved crop production and productivity through research excellence in fungicide resistance, molecular genetics and farming systems,” Minister Joyce said
“In the next 50 years, the world will have to produce as much food as has ever been produced in the history of humanity. Food and water security—with access to safe, high-quality, clean and green produce—is now emerging as the cornerstone of well-being and prosperity in the modern global economy,” he said.
Funding for the $100 million national research centre supported by Curtin University will be extended for a further three years, with this additional funding the CCDM will be the result of the first bilateral research agreement between GRDC and an Australian university.
