No images? Click here
16 January 2024
Western Australian
agrifood export eNews
Next month, the Western Australian government will host evokeAG. 2024, the premier agrifood technology event in the Asia Pacific region. A highlight will be the Premium Food and Beverage Meet the Buyer Showcase trade event, providing WA’s top agrifood suppliers with an important platform to showcase the diversity of the State’s agriculture sector on the world stage.
The WA Government will host up to 20 international and high-level domestic buyers, providing a unique opportunity for the state's leading food and beverage suppliers to present their products to key international and local retailers, distributors, and food service businesses.
The main event is scheduled for the morning of Monday 19 February, where approximately 50 suppliers will be selected for a three-hour mini trade show event at Perth’s Ritz Carlton Hotel.
Following the morning session, participating suppliers will also have the chance to network over lunch and attend various other trade events at the Ritz Carlton during the afternoon. These include a South East Asia market insights session, a presentation on Lean Manufacturing by TXM, a UK market insights session and a agrifood-tech showcase by the CSIRO.
You are invited to register your interest in participating as a supplier in this exciting buyer event leveraging evokeAG. 2024 in WA.
Source and Image: evokeAG.
evokeAG. 2024 is coming to Perth this year, bringing the entire ecosystem to Western Australia – leaders, farmers, innovators, accelerators, researchers, universities, corporates, government, and investors to one location for collaboration.
The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) is offering one ticket per WA agtech start-up, for up to 10 start-ups to attend evokeAG. 2024 in Perth from 20 to 21 February 2024. Expressions of Interest close 5pm (AWST) Thursday 25 January 2024.
Start-ups must meet ticket costs in the first instance and invoice DPIRD accordingly. Start-ups from regional WA and first-time applicants for evokeAG. support packages are encouraged to apply.
Please refer to the Guidelines for further details.
Source: DPIRD | Image: evokeAG.
WA Dairy Industry Working Group
Members of the Western Australian Dairy Industry Working Group met in Bunbury in December 2023 to discuss the shared commitment to operationalising the six goals of the five-year dairy development plan.
Present in the discussion were representatives from the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD), Dairy Australia, Western Dairy, WA Farmers, Lactalis, Brownes and Bega. The Australian Dairy Products Federation was an invited guest.
2024 will be a year of progress for the careful design of a mix of strategic initiatives that align with the six goals to support the sustainability of the WA dairy industry into the future.
For further information, please contact Terry Burnage, Dairy Industry Development Lead, DPIRD, at Terry.Burnage@dpird.wa.gov.au.
Source and Photo: DPIRD
Three inspiring wheatbelt women have been selected as the 2024 Western Australian finalists in the AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award.
For more than two decades, the national award has celebrated and empowered women in Australia’s rural and emerging industries, businesses and communities. Each of the women has made an outstanding contribution to rural WA and the State’s valuable primary industries, and has a clear vision of how they would like to use the prestigious platform.
Finalist Jay Page is a Northam apiarist who intends to focus her passion for bees into expanding school education to raise awareness of sustainable bee production, as interest in recreational beekeeping increases. Bolgart business advocate Mandy Walker is keen to take regional investment to the next level by capturing opportunities from defence investments for wheatbelt enterprises. Wandering Farming Champions not-for-profit chair Nicola Kelliher would like to channel her skills from ‘Farmer on a Plate’ to deliver scalable events to highlight the role of farming families in food providence.
The WA winner will be announced in March 2024 and will receive a $15,000 bursary to realise their plans, as well as professional development training.
The award is supported by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, the Rural, Regional and Remote Women’s Network of WA, CBH Group and Westpac. More...
Source and Photo: DPIRD / AgriFutures Australia
World Bank: Subdued growth, multiple challenges
Global growth is set to slow further this year amid tight monetary policy, restrictive financial conditions, and feeble global trade and investment, according to the World Bank.
Downside risks include an escalation of the recent conflict in the Middle East, financial stress, persistent inflation, trade fragmentation, and climate-related disasters.
In its Global Economic Prospects report released this month, the World Bank says global cooperation is needed to provide debt relief, facilitate trade integration, tackle climate change, and alleviate food insecurity.
The global recovery from the 2020 pandemic recession remains subdued, with 2020-24 expected to mark the weakest start to a decade for global growth since the early 1990s – another period characterised by geopolitical strains and a global recession. More...
Source and Graphic: World Bank
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.
Subscribe to Western Australian Agrifood Export eNews.
Important disclaimer
The Chief Executive Officer of the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development and the State of Western Australia accept no liability whatsoever by reason of negligence or otherwise arising from the use or release of this information or any part of it.
Copyright © State of Western Australia (Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development), 2023.
