Horticulture

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Horticulture
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What is Horticulture?

• Industry includes vegetables, fruit, nuts,
  nursery, turf, cut flowers and extractive crops
• The fastest growing agricultural industry in
  Australia
• 1 in 4 agriculture employees are in horticulture

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Australian horticulture
One of the largest agricultural industries in
Australia (8.7b) With wine grapes
(10.0b) (2008/09 ABARE)
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But facing globalisation head on

• increasing domestic production
• high labour costs (50 of farm gate price), fuel,
  chemicals ..
• access to resources water, labour, land
• climate change and policy response
• increasing imports (from low labour cost markets)
• facing globalisation
• domestic market and
• export markets
• how we face this ? horticulture viability
• we need a plan .

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. a whole of industry plan
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Todays speaker / panel

• Brent Borrell (CIE)
• Judith Damiani (Citrus Australia)
• David De Paoli (Austchilli) Leadership Group
• Tony Ford (McCain Foods)

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Keep informed www.futurefocus.org.au
Launch 24/25 May 09