New Roadmaps identify priorities and investment direction

A more prosperous and sustainable Australian horticulture industry starts with clear priorities and targeted action. Strengthening industry capability, improving farm productivity, generating domestic demand, enhancing biosecurity resilience and driving export growth are among the highest priorities identified for future investment across Australian horticulture.

These are reflected in Hort Innovation’s new Horticulture Investment Roadmaps, which provide a framework for directing levy investments to the opportunities and challenges that can deliver the greatest value for growers and long-term benefit for Australian horticulture.

Replacing the industry Strategic Investment Plans (SIPs), the Horticulture Investment Roadmaps identify the priorities that matter most across 37 horticulture industries. They introduce a more responsive approach to investment planning, with priorities reviewed annually to ensure they continue to reflect changing industry conditions, emerging opportunities and grower needs.

This is supported by a digital Horticulture Investment Roadmap Dashboard, designed to make it easier for growers and industry to access information about industry priorities, funded projects and levy investments in one place.

Through the Dashboard, growers can explore the priorities identified by their industry, view current research, development and marketing investments, and see how funded projects align with agreed industry priorities. The Dashboard also provides greater visibility across horticulture, showing shared industry challenges and opportunities for cross-industry collaboration.

More information

The Dashboard was launched on 30 September and is now accessible via the Hort Innovation website.

View the Investment Roadmap Dashboard here;

You can also learn more about using the Dashboard via the ‘how-to’ videos here.