Solving tomorrow's challenges today.

Western Australia's agricultural research, development and extension capabilities are being rebuilt and reinvigorated through the WA Agricultural Research Collaboration. The new collaboration will work with industry to build applied research programs focused on emerging industry issues.

The Collaboration brings together the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Australia's national science agency CSIRO, Grower Group Alliance, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University and the University of Western Australia.

The Collaboration will focus on a series of programs to respond to the needs of WA industries by applying the best available scientific knowledge to our State's unique context. These include:

Program 1

Northern Agriculture

Increasing the gross value of production through intensification of agriculture by 2030, focusing on sustainable growth of irrigated agriculture and the northern beef industry.

Program 2

Grains Transformation

Transforming the WA grains industry to achieve an average 25 million tonne crop per annum by 2035, achieved with 50% decrease in fertiliser, crop protection and fuel input use than 2022.

Program 3

Climate Resilience

Addressing the impacts of climate change through technologies that can deliver future landscapes that maintain agricultural productivity while reducing carbon emissions by 50% by 2035.

Program 4

Agricultural Technologies

Driving 20% improvement in margins of the leading 10% of producers by 2035.

Program 5

Aboriginal Participation

Doubling Aboriginal employment in agriculture by 2035 including by direct participation in agricultural businesses.

Program 6

Capacity Building and Extension

Encouraging and supporting WA growers to apply research outcomes in the paddock.

The WA Government is investing $25 million over three years (2022-23 to 2024-25), to spur the next generation of advances in the State's agriculture and food sector.

The funding aims to secure more than $50 million in additional investment from national and industry-based funding sources, including research corporations to fund specific WA priority research, development and extension initiatives.

The WA Agricultural Research Collaboration is expected to be fully operational by early 2023.