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11 July 2023
Western Australian
Agrifood Export eNews
Early bird tickets to Asia-Pacific’s premier agrifood tech innovation event, AgriFutures evokeAG, are officially on sale, as the event prepares to head to Perth on 20 to 21 February 2024.
evokeAG will connect the agrifood innovation community from Australia, across the Asia Pacific region and around the world.
Building on the success of evokeAG 2023, this next instalment promises to bring together thought leaders and change makers in agriculture, research, innovation, investment, and policy in one place to build connections for a more resilient, productive and profitable agricultural sector and value chain.
The Western Australian Government is partnering with evokeAG to connect national and international representatives and to showcase agrifood innovation. More...
Source and Image: evokeAG 2024
The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development’s Western Australian Exporter Directory, which provides overseas buyers with direct access to food and beverage exporters, is being updated.
If you are a WA agrifood exporter already listed in this directory, please ensure that all your details are correct. If you require any updates – including text, images or logos – please email all the updated information to Ms Shuchi Athreya at shuchi.athreya@dpird.wa.gov.au by Tuesday 18 July 2023. If you were listed in the directory but you no longer export, please let us know.
Any WA agrifood exporters that are not in the directory but would like to be included in the updated version, please fill out this survey by Tuesday 18 July 2023.
For further information about the Western Australian Exporter Directory, please email shuchi.athreya@dpird.wa.gov.au. More...
Source and Photo: DPIRD
Are you a Western Australian agribusiness with plans to begin, continue or expand your international export journey?
WA agribusinesses are invited to share their trade and investment aspirations for the remainder of 2023, 2024 and beyond.
By completing this survey you will assist the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) with prioritising future support services for the WA agrifood and beverage sector. By letting us know your trade and export aspirations including market priorities, we can ensure you are given the opportunity to connect directly with overseas buyers when hosting inbound trade missions.
The survey can be completed in under five minutes. It closes this Friday 14 July 2023. More...
Source: DPIRD | Photo: Austrade [Following involvement in Gulfood 2023 in Dubai in February, DPIRD trade officers Fiona Goss and Charles Li supported WA exporters in a WA Government mission to Qatar, visiting supermarkets and businesses to further enhance trade relations with Qatar.]
Austrade is now consulting on options to improve Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) outcomes in line with the Federal Government’s decision to strategically refocus the program.
This refocus follows the 2022 EMDG Operational Review that indicated balancing the level of interest in EMDG with the available funding is critical to ensure the popular and valued program can provide effective support for Australian businesses.
To participate in the consultation process, please read the consultation paper and then:
- Write a submission and respond to the questions raised in the consultation paper. Send your submission to Austrade by 11 August 2023 through the EMDG Secretariat at EMDGpolicy@austrade.gov.au, and/or
- Join an online workshop to discuss the options identified in the consultation paper – see EMDG refocus consultation for workshop dates and how to register, and/or
- Complete the survey, which will open shortly and close on 11 August 2023. EMDG Update subscribers will be notified when the survey opens. More...
Source: Austrade | Photo: Kaitlyn Baker / Unsplash
Western Australia's pearling industry is shining brightly after achieving its successful recertification under the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) sustainability standard.
With the initial certification in 2017, it became the first gem fishery in the world to achieve the standard recognising the sustainable fishing of Pinctada maxima oysters to produce pearls and other products.
The recertification expands the sustainability credentials of the pearling industry to include hatchery-produced pearl oysters grown in WA's pristine northern waters, as well as the collection of pearl oysters from the wild.
WA has world-leading fisheries management and research programs that provide the basis for the sustainable harvest of our fish resources for the benefit of the community.
There are currently 12 WA fisheries that hold the internationally recognised 'gold standard' MSC certification, including the West Coast Rock Lobster Managed Fishery – the first fishery in the world to receive the MSC tick, and most recently Rare Foods Australia's abalone ocean ranching operation. More...
Source: WA Minister for Fisheries | Photo: MSC [Paspaley pearl and Pinctada maxima oyster]
G20 economies introduced substantially more trade-facilitating than trade-restrictive measures on goods between mid-October 2022 and mid-May 2023, according to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The G20 is an intergovernmental forum comprising 19 countries, including Australia, and the European Union.
However, several export restrictions on food, feed and fertilisers remained in place, compromising the predictable flow of food through international markets and contributing to price volatility at a time when food affordability remains a major global concern.
The WTO Trade Monitoring Report on G20 trade measures, issued on 4 July, shows that the war in Ukraine, COVID-19 after-effects, extreme weather and high food and energy prices continue to cause uncertainty in global trade. More...
Source: WTO | Photo: Jonas / Unsplash [Port of Hamburg, Germany]
Anyone wishing to prepare business ideas for the commercial environment will be interested in Curtin Ignition, a week-long intensive program designed to prepare business ideas for commercial use.
Since 2016, Investment Services at the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development have offered three fully-funded individual places for those with ideas around agribusiness, agtech, food and beverage manufacturing etc, to participate in the programme. Non-funded positions are $3,750 (excluding GST) per person.
Those who experience the program will learn how to explain their business opportunity in commercial terms. Participants will learn how to develop a commercial approach in the development of innovative ideas, how to identify good opportunities in a short period with minimal investment, clarify their business ideas, and test them within a high calibre, although a safe environment.
Applications for fully-funded positions close this Friday 14 July 2023. More…
Source and Image: Curtin University / Investment Services, DPIRD
Further information
Agribusiness, commercial fishing and aquaculture news from the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD). If you have any questions or information to share, please email export@dpird.wa.gov.au.
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