date:May 15, 2014
for the agricultural sector has been the announcement of around $100 million new funding over four years to fund research in partnership with Rural Research and Development Corporations (RDC), constituting the delivery of the Governments election promise.
There are also some smaller measures to support exporters and strengthen Australias biosecurity and quarantine arrangements etc, but there are very few additional initiatives targeted at the longer-term structural issues close to the heart of