Hayes sprays HIA over R&D funding

Ashley Walmsley
Updated July 17 2017 - 10:41am, first published July 15 2017 - 5:00am
NO LEVY: Currently, glasshouse tomato growers do not pay a levy, something which Protected Cropping Australia suggests hinders the industry from accessing commonwealth funds for research and development.
NO LEVY: Currently, glasshouse tomato growers do not pay a levy, something which Protected Cropping Australia suggests hinders the industry from accessing commonwealth funds for research and development.

THE push for non-levied horticulture industries to receive matched commonwealth research funding was given an almighty shove at last week's Protected Cropping Australia Conference in Adelaide.

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley

Editor, Good Fruit & Vegetables

Ashley Walmsley is the editor of ACM's only national, fresh produce magazine, Good Fruit & Vegetables, while also covering horticulture stories for the agricultural papers and websites. He also writes the weekly, The Ringer, column in the Qld Country Life.

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