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The Western Australian Government, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA and Austrade TradeStart will host a five-day visit for approximately 25 buyers from Asia in March. The group will meet WA producers and sample premium food and non-alcoholic beverages, providing a platform to develop new international sales opportunities.
For the Perth leg of the visit, a speed-dating style event will take place on 27 March in the central business district for producers to meet the buyers and discuss potential supply arrangements. The buyers are importers, distributors and major retailer representatives from Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Mauritius, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
They are visiting WA to source meats and seafood, dairy products, premium and healthy packaged foods, fresh grocery items, nuts, truffles, confectionary, baking goods and cereals, ready-made meals, and non-alcoholic beverages. Export-ready producers are invited to apply to participate in this speed-dating event.
Event Date/Time: Monday 27 March 2023, 8.00-11.30am.
Event style: Speed dating with shared tables for presenting your products.
Location: Duxton Hotel Ballroom.
Cost: Free – except for any samples and collateral you wish to bring with you.
Please click here to register your interest. Submissions close 6pm, Wednesday 22 February 2023.
Source and Photo: DPIRD
Round 4 of the successful Agrifood and Beverage Voucher Program is now open, with up to $15,000 available to food and beverage businesses to improve competitiveness, scale, export preparedness, resilience, and sustainability.
Businesses looking to become 'future ready' and pursue carbon assessments and emissions reduction strategies are encouraged to apply under the environmental sustainability and social responsibility category. Other categories include business planning, manufacturing for business growth, sales and marketing, and financial health. Businesses can also use the vouchers to prepare for export or for export planning.
Over the past five years, 134 small and medium sized regional and metropolitan businesses from the Kimberley to the South Coast have received 207 agrifood and beverage vouchers, valued at more than $950,000.
The matching dollar-for-dollar vouchers have helped recipients to expand, diversify, value add and capture new market opportunities – generating flow-on benefits to the community and the State economy. Previous recipients have used the vouchers for advice on reducing their carbon footprint, developing new e-commerce capabilities, succession planning to ensure continued local ownership, and strategic marketing planning for national expansion.
For more information and to start your application visit the WA Agrifood and Beverage Voucher Program website. Applications close 5pm Monday 27 March 2023. More...
Source: WA Minister for Agriculture and Food / DPIRD | Photo: DPIRD [L-R: DPIRD Executive Director Agribusiness, Food and Trade, Liam O’Connell; Minister for Agriculture and Food, Jackie Jarvis; Mason Bagios, Chief Executive Officer, Kommunity Brew.]
The program is now available for Turning the Dial, a two-day industry event dedicated to Environment, Social and Governance (ESG), food waste and sustainable packaging innovations, supporting the Western Australian food and beverage sector’s transition to a circular economy.
This Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development event takes place Monday 27 February and Tuesday 28 February from 8.30 am to 5pm AWST each day at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, Riverview Room 4, 21 Mounts Bay Road, Perth. Register now.
Source: DPIRD | Photo: iStock
Hong Kong is back in business! The bustling Asian trade hub has re-opened its doors to travellers, creating a world of opportunities for Australian food and agribusinesses to thrive. Don't miss out on your chance to tap into this dynamic market.
Export Connect, in collaboration with Austrade Hong Kong, Chef's Garden and Feather and Bone, will deliver a Hong Kong Market Insights Webinar and share up-to-the-minute insights, trends, opportunities and challenges in the Hong Kong market. Register today to secure your spot at this event, which is taking place at 10am (AWST) on Wednesday 1 March 2023.
Source: Export Connect | Photo: Simon Zhu / Unsplash
It is essential for farmers and the agricultural industry to understand the impact carbon will have on their business, and how and why to measure it. The Carbon and Farming Conference on 7 March 2023 at Rendezvous Hotel, Scarborough, Western Australia, will cover:
- The global picture and how international factors will impact your farm.
- What is driving the change – from sourcing funds through to supply chain implications, you will gain a better understanding of what it all means to you and your business.
- Potential solutions that make sense in reducing your carbon footprint as well as improving your farm and your bottom line.
Speakers at the event include Murray Watt, Australian Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Tony Mahar, Chief Executive Officer of the National Farmers Federation, and Trevor Whittington, Chief Executive Officer, WAFarmers. More...
Source: Carbon and Farming Conference | Photo: DPIRD
In a Western Australian first, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) scientists are using high-end technology to test for biotoxins in shellfish to support the State’s growing aquaculture industry.
DPIRD’s Diagnostic Laboratory Services (DDLS) now provide WA’s first National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) accredited Shellfish Biotoxin tests. The tests assist WA seafood producers to meet export requirements, while helping to protect WA’s reputation as a clean and safe producer of seafood
Led by laboratory scientist Ricarda Fenske, the project is just one involving DPIRD’s scientists who were celebrated as part of International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11 February).
Ms Fenske said the new high-end equipment was set to test for 27 different toxins in a variety of molluscs to meet stringent international testing requirements.
“Seafood such as oysters and mussels can sometimes accumulate toxins in their flesh from the algae they eat,” Ms Fenske said. “Testing for these toxins was not previously available in WA and seafood samples were sent interstate which took time and added to the cost for WA seafood producers.”
As part of a market diversification priority, DPIRD has also been supporting the aquaculture industry on navigating market access requirements for WA shellfish products for markets like European Union and Singapore. This new capability to conduct biotoxin testing will assist the WA aquaculture industry to expand into export markets and will provide greater consumer confidence in WA produce. More...
Related: International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2023: DPIRD scientists advancing primary industries and the regions | Source and Photo: DPIRD [DPIRD scientists Ricarda Fenske (left) and Janie Blomfield.]
The Western Australian Government is driving a range of innovation initiatives to grow the uptake of pulses, which have garnered global attention for their nutritional benefits.
World Pulses Day (10 February) recognised the significance of pulses – also known as grain legumes – which include lupins, lentils, chickpeas, field peas and faba beans.
Research by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) is backing the WA industry, with work across crop genetics and agronomy through to supply chain support.
A key project, backed by the Australian Government's Agricultural Innovation Hubs Program, has brought together WA-based lupin processing and food businesses with technical professionals to establish a new syndicate called Sweet Lupin Western Australia.
The group aims to advance the production and export of lupin food ingredients and finished food products from the State.
DPIRD is also leading WA trials for a new national pulse physiology project to help match chickpea varieties and agronomy with soil and climate to help growers maximise yield and profit. More...
Source: WA Minister for Agriculture and Food | Photo: DPIRD [Lupins]
1581 outbound flights from Australia were reported in the fourth week of January, representing nearly 3.5 times the number of flights for the same period in 2020 (465 flights), and around 72% of flights from the same period in pre-COVID 2020 (2207 flights), according to the latest Export Supply Chain Snapshot from Austrade.
While freight rates remain high compared to pre-COVID, global airfreight pricing declined 1% in the first two weeks of January 2023. The global average rates of USD$3.06/kg is 6% lower in January 2023 versus December 2022. Elevated rates are likely to persist in the near-term due to high passenger traffic and fuel costs.
On 20 January 2023 Oceania jet fuel prices were $122/barrel, 18% higher than December 2022 and 33.6% higher than the same period in 2022.
The recording and slides from last week’s Export Supply Chain Industry Briefing are now available.
The Export Supply Chain Service is an Austrade initiative to coordinate supply chain insights while connectivity to international markets remains volatile, capacity diminished and rates expensive. More...
Source: Austrade | Photo: Andrés Dallimonti / Unsplash
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