Investment
Investment
Building capacity, skills and knowledge for the pulse industry in the Southern Region: Supporting expansion of high value pulses into new areas and ensuring sustained profitability of all key pulse crops in existing areas
- Project start date:
- 14/09/2017
- Project end date:
- 31/03/2021
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Vetch, (Legume)
- Organisation
- Birchip Cropping Group
- Region:
- South
- Project status
-
Completed
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Resources
2018 Annual report – Southern region Regional Cropping Solutions Network - GRDC
This report outlines local research, development and extension (RD&E) priorities identified by the grain grower, adviser and researcher members of the GRDC Regional Cropping Solutions Network (RCSN), operating across the southern grain-growing