Review looks at rural innovation spend

By Shan Goodwin
Updated September 27 2018 - 12:07pm, first published 6:00am
 More than $675 million was collected in revenue from compulsory grower levies and public funds by 15 research and development corporations in the 2016/17 financial year. Five took home a combined revenue of about $522m a year.
More than $675 million was collected in revenue from compulsory grower levies and public funds by 15 research and development corporations in the 2016/17 financial year. Five took home a combined revenue of about $522m a year.

JUST what appetite exists for significant change in agricultural research and development is the question being bandied around in the wake of Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud’s move to pull together a “shared strategic vision”.

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